Date: Wed, 06 Mar 2002 21:00:26 -0300 From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Jos=E9?= Romildo Malaquias <romildo@uber.com.br> To: Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD installed slice was renamead by Windows XP installer Message-ID: <3C86AD9A.67BD8766@uber.com.br> References: <3C853C4C.B0437102@uber.com.br> <3C855FEE.7090509@owt.com>
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Kent Stewart wrote: > José Romildo Malaquias wrote: > > > I have installed FreeBSD 4.5 on my box in slice ad0s4. Another day > > I have also installed Windows XP on my box in slice ad0s1. I do not > > know why, but after Windows installation, slice numbering on my > > disk was changed. Now the FreeBSD slice is ad0s3. And of course > > I am unable to boot into FreeBSD successfuly. At boot time, the > > root file system can not be mounted and I am asked what device > > file to use in mounting it. Then I tell to mount it using /dev/ad0s3a. > > It is then mounted in read only mode, but the other file systems also > > fail mounting because of the same reason. I am presented > > with a prompt for a shell to be used. In the shell I try to > > mount the remainder files systems, but the system tells me > > that the corresponding device does not exist. In fact, doing > > an 'ls -l /dev/ad0s3*' command, I see that there is only the > > /dev/ad0s3 device file. So I do not know how to proceed to > > solve this problem. > > cd /dev > sh MAKEDEV ad0s3h > > It will make everything. The root file system is being mounted in read only mode. Therefore the device files can not be created. Also the /etc/fstab file can not be edited to reflect the new partitions. How can I mount the root file system in read-write mode in this situation? > > Any clues? Romildo -- Prof. José Romildo Malaquias Departamento de Computação http://iceb.ufop.br/~romildo Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto romildo@iceb.ufop.br Brasil romildo@uber.com.br To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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