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Subject:    RE: Re[2]: Disks moved around -- can't boot -- help!!!
From:       "Milo Hyson" <milo () cyberlifelabs ! com>
Date:       2001-08-18 22:12:50
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Yup, that did it. Thanks.

Somebody needs to figure out a better way to handle that situation.

- Milo Hyson
CyberLife Labs, LLC 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Walter Hop
> Sent: Saturday, August 18, 2001 2:33 PM
> To: Milo Hyson
> Cc: FreeBSD Questions List
> Subject: Re[2]: Disks moved around -- can't boot -- help!!!
> 
> 
> [in reply to milo@cyberlifelabs.com, 18-08-2001]
> 
> > 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.
> 
> Funny, I had the same problem last week (ad1 moved to ad0).
> 
> After moving a disk to a new machine, boot failed and I could not mount
> it read-write because the right devices were missing. I'm sure there is
> a better method, but I did the following:
> 
> *] Booted with kern.flp and mfsroot.flp, went to "Fixit" with fixit.flp
> *] On the Fixit floppy, in /mnt2/dev/ if I recall correctly, I did
>    a: sh ./MAKEDEV ad0s1a (the ad0 dev entries were absent)
> *] I could now mount the hard drive with: mount -t ufs ./ad0s1a /mnt
> *] On the hard drive I remade the devices as well: cd /mnt/dev/;
>    sh ./MAKEDEV ad0s1a
> *] Then edited /etc/fstab to reflect the new drive (ad0 instead of ad1),
>    and rebooted.
> 
> Hope this helps,
> walter
> 
> --
>  Walter Hop <walter@binity.com> | +31 6 24290808 | Finger for public key
> 
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