In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> R Joseph Wright
writes:
: I recently upgraded from 3.2 to 4.0. I use an ide hard disk, and would
: like to know how to change over the devices. I created the new devices
: by copying over /usr/src/etc/MAKEDEV to a new /dev directory and running
: it, but it didn't create any ata* devices such as is shown in the kernel
: config file.
: It did make devices ada1, ada2, ada3, and ada4, which would correspond to
: the four slices on my disk, but if there are no freebsd partitions shown,
: such as ada4a, etc.
>From src/UPDATING:
To rebuild disk /dev entries
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MAKEDEV should be copied from src/etc/MAKEDEV to /dev before
starting the following:
For N in the list of disks
MAKEDEV N # eg ad0
for M in the list of slices
MAKEDEV NsMa # eg ad0s1a
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