Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 19:20:09 -0700 From: Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC <chad@shire.net> To: Martin McCormick <martin@dc.cis.okstate.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mounting a Bootable FreeBSD disk Message-ID: <2587A9D4-5431-11D7-BD73-003065A70D30@shire.net> In-Reply-To: <200303120208.h2C2815b085934@dc.cis.okstate.edu>
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try using /dev/da1s1a for the root partition slice of the hot added disk with the bootable system on it. Chad On Tuesday, Mar 11, 2003, at 19:08 US/Mountain, Martin McCormick wrote: > This is a time when I don't understand all I know yet. I > just built a system using the FreeBSD4.7 CDROM and then removed > that bootable drive and temporarily added it to another identical > FreeBSD box as a second drive. > > I added it hot for practice in an upcoming upgrade and > used camcontrol rescan 0:1:0 to get the running system to see the > new drive. This appeared to go without a hitch and the kernel > printed several diagnostic messages about the new drive. Good, > so far. > > I know that secondary drives containing a UNIX file > system are extremely easy to mount. > > This bootable drive, when in its proper slot, brings a > system right up with no errors. When I try to run fsck on > /dev/da1 or mount /dev/da1s1 on /mnt, the complaint is of a bad > superblock. > > Should a regular mount command work? > > Unless the SCSI start up procedure corrupted the drive, I > don't see why there should be any complaint. > > Again, my procedure was to run camcontrol rescan 0:1:0 to > make the system see the new SCSI device. Then I tried to fsck > and or mount and that's when I got all the bad superblock > messages. > > The disk in question is bootable right in to FreeBSD with > no boot manager or multiple OS's. It is as simple as it gets. > > The plan is to temporarily mount the drive, make a tar > ball of the whole thing, and then put it back in its home server. > > The errors remind me of what I saw the first time I ever > tried to mount a DOS-formatted floppy disk or a CDROM before I > read about the special forms of mount that exist in FreeBSD. > Many thanks to all of you. > > Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK > OSU Center for Computing and Information Services Network Operations > Group > > 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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