[email protected] ("Thomas Mueller") writes: >I wonder if rebuilding/updating the NetBSD system from source would fix the >/dev.
A rebuild would do nothing and I doubt that an update helps (but it would be a good feature). A reinstall (using sysinst) does help. >I notice the instructions say nothing about booting single-user after >installing the new kernel but before installing the new world. It is not strictly necessary. >Instructions for FreeBSD advise booting single-user after "make buildworld, >"make buildkernel" and "make installkernel". >Maybe that would be a good idea for NetBSD too? >I prefer to use NetBSD-current rather than 6.x. That obviously causes more problems, but nothing like your current problem which is the result of a bad installation. >I can "boot netbsd-sandy6.1 -a" at boot prompt and get a prompt to specify >root device, but there the system hangs, and won't recognize any keyboard >input. USB as a console doesn't work everywhere. >I just checked the /dev/directory of that NetBSD-current amd64 USB stick, >GPT-partitioned so no NetBSD disklabel problems, from FreeBSD, and only a few >things were there including MAKEDEV and MAKEDEV.local , also altq, fd and log. This looks like someone just unpacked the file sets.
