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List:       freebsd-questions
Subject:    RE: Disks moved around -- can't boot -- help!!!
From:       "Milo Hyson" <milo () cyberlifelabs ! com>
Date:       2001-08-18 21:08:51
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One problem. There are no device nodes for the new slices. The current
slices are ad0s1a, ad0s1b, ad0s1e and ad0s1f. There are nodes for ad1, ad1a
through ad1h and ad1s1 through ad1s4.

- Milo Hyson
CyberLife Labs, LLC

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Odhiambo Washington [mailto:wash@wananchi.com]
> Sent: Saturday, August 18, 2001 1:47 AM
> To: FreeBSD Questions List
> Cc: milo@cyberlifelabs.com; philip@p6m7g8.com
> Subject: Re: Disks moved around -- can't boot -- help!!!
>
>
> * Philip M. Gollucci <philip@p6m7g8.com> [20010818 11:35]:
> writing on the subject 'Re: Disks moved around -- can't boot -- help!!!'
> | try in single usermode
> | mount /
> | if that fails
> | fsck -p /
> | then try again
> | mount /
>
>
> What is that for??
>
> |
> | IF all that fails... assuming you still have /kernel.GENERIC
> available to
> | boot from, you might try that.
>
>
> And what is this for?
>
> |
> | When it says push enter to boot immediately, hit any other key.
> | then type
> | boot /kernel.GENERIC
> |
> | Hope that helps...
>
>
> Doesn't help either...
>
> |
> |
> | If all this fails, temporarily take the other drive out, put the FreeBSD
> | back where it was, boot up.... edit/save the /etc/fstab file, then put
> | both drives back in and you might get lucky.
>
> Yes.... change the entries from /dev/ad0 to /dev/ad1, save, mount both
> disks and reboot.
>
>
> -Wash
>
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