From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 18 15:12:53 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from lab.cyberlifelabs.com (lab.cyberlifelabs.com [208.201.255.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E186537B413 for ; Sat, 18 Aug 2001 15:12:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from milo@cyberlifelabs.com) Received: (qmail 57931 invoked from network); 18 Aug 2001 22:12:50 -0000 Received: from win2k.lab.cyberlifelabs.com (HELO win2k) (208.201.255.3) by lab.cyberlifelabs.com with SMTP; 18 Aug 2001 22:12:50 -0000 From: "Milo Hyson" To: "FreeBSD Questions List" Subject: RE: Re[2]: Disks moved around -- can't boot -- help!!! Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2001 15:12:50 -0700 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: <1416454641.20010818233312@binity.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 | +31 6 24290808 | Finger for public key > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message