Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2000 17:17:28 -0500 From: "Rod Taylor" <rbt@zort.on.ca> To: <cjclark@alum.mit.edu>, <bottree@zort.on.ca> Cc: <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Fstab issues... Message-ID: <009501c0572d$7f4691d0$6500000a@jester> References: <007e01c05766$8b5b48b0$6500000a@jester> <20001125135748.Y12190@149.211.6.64.reflexcom.com>
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Regarding device, I had assummed that it would be ad0, not wd0 as you said. Never even thought to look at what it had actually mounted. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Crist J . Clark" <cjclark@reflexnet.net> To: "Rod Taylor" <rbt@zort.on.ca> Cc: <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Saturday, November 25, 2000 4:57 PM Subject: Re: Fstab issues... > On Sat, Nov 25, 2000 at 09:05:50PM -0800, Rod Taylor wrote: > > While playing around I managed to fully erase /etc/fstab (on purpose actually :). > > > > Anyhow, on a reboot something rather mistifying happened. It was obvious that it wouldn't be able to find any devices to mount, and mounted the / partition read only. Now, the strange thing is that I was unable to mount / for write (mount /dev/ad0s1a /) without first creating an fstab file with a fixit disk. > > I just tried the same thing twice and had to resort to fixit.flp the > first one. > > On the first try, I mv'ed fstab out of the way and rebooted. I got > dropped to single-user mode as expected. I tried to mount the root > file system, but could not. The reason I couldn't was because the > kernel mounted the root filesystem as /dev/wd0s1a. I don't have any > wd(4) devices since I thought they were depricated and converted > everything to ad(4). I guess not. > > I fixed things with the fixit.flp and went in to build a set of wd0s1 > partitions. I tried the disappearing fstab again. It booted into > single-user and I just did, > > # mount /dev/wd0s1a / > > And it worked fine. I fixed the fstab and continued the boot into > multi-user. > > Were you trying to mount the correct device? > > It is annoying that the kernel automatically mounts a wd(4) > device. Those are supposed to be depricated, no? > -- > Crist J. Clark cjclark@alum.mit.edu > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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