From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 13 05:01:11 2004 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 E779516A4CE for ; Fri, 13 Feb 2004 05:01:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from dd2718.kasserver.com (dd2718.kasserver.com [81.209.184.159]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B9F7543D1D for ; Fri, 13 Feb 2004 05:01:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd@chillt.de) Received: from chillt.de (dsl-213-023-192-054.arcor-ip.net [213.23.192.54]) by dd2718.kasserver.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id A98F125876 for ; Fri, 13 Feb 2004 14:00:30 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <402CCA96.3020302@chillt.de> Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 14:01:10 +0100 From: Bartosz Fabianowski User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040204 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: 4.x disk slice missing in 5.2.1-RC 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: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 13:01:12 -0000 Hi all! On one of my hard disks, I have two slices. The first, /dev/ad4s1, is fromatted FAT32 and contains a Windows installation. The second, /dev/ad4s2, contains a FreeBSD 4-STABLE installation. The FreeBSD slice, of course, is further split into the usual partitions (/dev/ad4s2a and so on). Those partitions are all formatted UFS1. When I boot into this 4-STABLE installation, all slices and partitions are found and the system runs perfectly. However, when I boot into 5.2.1-RC, which I have installed onto another hard drive (/dev/ad6s1), the /dev/ad4s2 partition is missing. At boot time, the entries /dev/ad4 and /dev/ad4s1 are created - so the FAT32 partition is found. But the entry for /dev/ad4s2 is missing. I tried looking for the partition using fdisk and it is found as the second partition, containing a *BSD system. I then tried to check the disk labels, but disklabel complained that /dev/ad4s2 does not exist. Mounting any partition such as /dev/ad4s2a doesn't work either, as the entries are not auto-created by devfs since their parent /dev/ad4s2 does not exist. I tried to manually create this device entry, but mknod wouldn't let me. So, I am out of ideas. How can fdisk see the partition, 4-STABLE boot just fine from it, but devfs simply ignore it? Any help would be greatly appreciated! - Bartosz Fabianowski