Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1998 21:14:36 -0400 (EDT) From: "Stephen A. Derdau" <sderdau@xtdl.com> To: faq@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: /dev/wd0a 2.2.6 stable (fwd) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.980407211349.25526d-100000@user.xtdl.com>
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You can edit this if you want to use it. i Thank You ! Stephen A. Derdau "So What if it is wrong. I am getting closer to the right answer!" "If I had a nickle for every time I was wrrong , I would want a quarter instead. :-)" ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1998 12:04:15 -0400 (EDT) From: Stephen A. Derdau <sderdau@xtdl.com> To: sderdau@xtdl.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: /dev/wd0a 2.2.6 stable ***** Thank You for all your help : Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> ****************************************** Well I finally got it right. MAYBE THIS INFO will help someone else. I rebuilt a kernel and did not do make world. However, I got the kernel to work finally. Until I got the fstab right I could not boot the new kernel. Anyways when I was unsuccessfull booting the new kernel I had to reboot boot **** kernel.old ****** still had a problem with fstab. had to mount -o rw -u /dev/wd0a / mount -a -t ufs swapon -a cd /etc and vi fstab Things just didn't work no matter what I did /dev/wd0s1a ...wd0s2a etc. Until I went to /dev/ did: sh MAKEDEV wd0s2a changed the /etc/fstab to : Device Mountpoint FStype Options Dump Pass# /dev/wd0s2a / ufs rw 1 1 And rebooted. Well what do you expect for a newbie. ! However all is working fine now... If this info can help anyone else I'll be happy. One day I plan on contributing to FreeBSD Project. Maybe just log my experiences.. :-) **** Thanks to all who helped me with other questions from 04/06/98 *** *********************************************************************** Thank You ! Stephen A. Derdau "So What if it is wrong. I am getting closer to the right answer!" "If I had a nickle for every time I was wrrong , I would want a quarter instead. :-)" 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
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