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Date:      Fri, 31 Oct 1997 09:09:13 +1030
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Mariusz Potocki <potok@friko.onet.pl>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Can't boot anymore :(
Message-ID:  <19971031090913.62505@lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <199710302052.VAA13605@friko.onet.pl>; from Mariusz Potocki on Thu, Oct 30, 1997 at 09:53:34PM %2B0100
References:  <199710302052.VAA13605@friko.onet.pl>

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On Thu, Oct 30, 1997 at 09:53:34PM +0100, Mariusz Potocki wrote:
> When I turn my computer on, FreeBSD doesn't want to start.
> Kernel boots but when system try to mount filesystems I have error
> messages:
> swapon: /dev/wd0s3b: No such file or directory.
> Automatic reboot in progress...
> /dev/rwd0a: clean, 67912 free (384 frags, 8441 blocks, 0,4%
> fragmentation)
> /dev/wd0s3f: No such file or directory.
> Can't stat /dev/wd0s3f.
> Automatic file system check failed... help!
>
> I run 2.2.1R, have Conner CFS1275A with OS/2 boot manager, DOS
> and FBSD partitions on it.
> In /etc/fstab I mount wd0s3f as /usr and wd0s3e as /var.
> Until today it was no problem at all with this configuration.
> What happened and how can I fix it ?
>
> ps. In shell at startup I can mount my slices, but using
> mount /dev/wd0f /usr instead wd0s3f as is in fstab

Strange.  It looks as if your partition table has changed.  Or have
you never been able to boot it like this?

> (what's a difference between both of them ?).

Complicated.  It's a different level of partitioning.  Anyway, if I
would you I'd change the fstab entries to point to what you can mount.

Greg




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