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Date:      Thu, 12 Apr 2007 11:49:40 +0100
From:      Alex Zbyslaw <xfb52@dial.pipex.com>
To:        Chris Hesselrode <chriscitrix@gmail.com>
Cc:        "illoai@gmail.com" <illoai@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FileSystem Fix
Message-ID:  <461E0EC4.4040203@dial.pipex.com>
In-Reply-To: <d7195cff0704120104n9f6ecc4t3714a4e4d46749d1@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <bc70f85b0704120030n446c6ea4n8c331e6e757a91aa@mail.gmail.com> <d7195cff0704120104n9f6ecc4t3714a4e4d46749d1@mail.gmail.com>

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illoai@gmail.com wrote:

> On 12/04/07, Chris Hesselrode <chriscitrix@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> mount reload of '/' failed: No such file or directory
>>
>> Can't stat /dev/ad6s1e: No such file or directory (6 times ... with
>> different ending letters)
>>
>> How can I fix this?
>>
>> In the /dev there are only:
>>
>> ad4
>> ad4s1
>> ad4s1a
>> ad4s1b
>> ad4s1c
>> ad4s1d
>> ad4s1e
>> ad4s1f
>
>
> It seems to me that your fstab is expecting
> /dev/ad6* and the drive is now on /dev/ad4.
> You might be able to plug it into another
> controller and have it work.
>
> Otherwise you will have to go through the tedium
> of passing the root device to the boot loader[1],
> booting into single user mode, fsck-ing by device
> number, mount /dev/ad6s1a /, editing the /etc/fstab,
> and continuing the boot from there.

Or boot from CD1, go in to fixit shell, mount /dev/ad4s1a on /mnt and 
edit /mnt/etc/fstab with vi or ed.

Take out the CD and it should boot.

--Alex









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