From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 21 12:27:37 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7FF0237B401 for ; Wed, 21 May 2003 12:27:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pd5mo2so.prod.shaw.ca (shawidc-mo1.cg.shawcable.net [24.71.223.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 94FAA43FAF for ; Wed, 21 May 2003 12:27:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cpressey@catseye.mb.ca) Received: from pd4mr1so.prod.shaw.ca (pd4mr1so-qfe3.prod.shaw.ca [10.0.141.212]) by l-daemon (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.14 (built Mar 18 2003)) with ESMTP id <0HF900CCF4I3YK@l-daemon> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 21 May 2003 13:22:51 -0600 (MDT) Received: from pn2ml1so.prod.shaw.ca (pn2ml1so-qfe0.prod.shaw.ca [10.0.121.145]) by l-daemon (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.14 (built Mar 18 2003)) with ESMTP id <0HF900L3Z4I33P@l-daemon> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 21 May 2003 13:22:51 -0600 (MDT) Received: from www.kallisti.ca (h24-70-180-74.wp.shawcable.net [24.70.180.74]) 2003))freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 21 May 2003 13:22:51 -0600 (MDT) Date: Wed, 21 May 2003 14:23:52 -0500 From: Chris Pressey In-reply-to: <20030521093151.GA94445@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-id: <20030521142352.15cea1a4.cpressey@catseye.mb.ca> Organization: Cat's Eye Technologies - http://www.catseye.mb.ca/ MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.0 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.8) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT References: <1052896702.3300.17.camel@arlette.love.dad> <20030514093825.GB64005@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> <20030521014213.7600e2f1.cpressey@catseye.mb.ca> <20030521093151.GA94445@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> Subject: Re: About my problem X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 21 May 2003 19:27:37 -0000 On Wed, 21 May 2003 10:31:51 +0100 Matthew Seaman wrote: > If you know in advance that you're going to be moving the drive to a > different device, then you'll save yourself a lot of trouble simply by > editing the /etc/fstab to match the new location *before* you shutdown > the system and move the drive from the original. Shutting down the > system with a non-matching fstab is a lot easier than booting it up. Very much agreed. I'll make certain to find out where I'm going to be putting the drive in ahead of time, next time. > [...] > Unfortunately I'm not in a position to investigate further so I can't > provide any better advice right now. However, I think that if you > care to experiment the next step would be simply to 'boot -s' from the > loader without trying to reset any of the loader variables. D'oh! Of all the permutations I tried, that might be the one I overlooked. I'll keep it in mind, but I'll definately count more on foresight in the future. Thanks for your help. -Chris