On Tuesday October 18, 2005 at 9:23 am "Tim" <ignored_mailbox@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, 2005-10-17 at 19:53 -0500, dsavage@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: >> Strictly speaking, /dev isn't a mounted filesystem but I suppose it's >> possible that some of its entries might not be precisely the same on a >> LVM disk as a plain partitions disk. Is there a preferred way to >> regenerate the /dev directory from scratch using MAKEDEV when booted >> to the Rescue CD? > > I just copied one HDD to another today, using the cp command with > appropriate parameters on most of the directories. If I recall what I > did correctly, I didn't copy /dev/ I just made an empty /dev directory > on the new drive, and let the system fill it on the next boot. > > I was of the understanding that, now, /dev/ is dynamically generated > each boot. Tim, I'll try that when I get home from the game tonight (NLCS Game 6 - GO CARDINALS!!). Last night I booted with the Rescue CD, copied everything in /dev to /dev1 (just in case), and ran "./MAKEDEV generic" in /dev. The result booted to the same panic. --Doc Savage Fairview Heights, IL
