[SunHELP] Can't stat /dev/rdsk/c0t3d0s0

Munish Bajaj mbajaj at quark.co.in
Mon May 26 06:51:15 CDT 2003


Please tell me how to make the device using mknod i.e how to get the major
number and minor number of the root disk.

Thanks for ur help

Regards
Munish Bajaj

-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Pinnock [mailto:cjep at fawlty.net]
Sent: Monday, May 26, 2003 17:16
To: Munish Bajaj
Subject: Re: [SunHELP] Can't stat /dev/rdsk/c0t3d0s0


On Mon, May 26, 2003 at 04:51:14PM +0530, Munish Bajaj wrote:
> When booted from cdrom  and done fsck the root partition comes out to be
> fine but on booting from root disk this error occurs. The device name for
/
> is missing from /dev/dsk directory and to resolve the issue /dev &
/devices
> directories has to be restored from root backup tapes . 

Try a "boot -r", hopefully this will restore it. If not, you can make
the relevant device nodes with mknod (once you've booted from CD-ROM).

(A boot from the CDROM will have done an implicit reconfigure this is
why it will have found your root partition device, I think...)

-- 
Chris



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