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Date:      Tue, 05 Mar 2002 16:16:46 -0800
From:      Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com>
To:        =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jos=E9?= Romildo Malaquias <romildo@uber.com.br>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD installed slice was renamead by Windows XP installer
Message-ID:  <3C855FEE.7090509@owt.com>
References:  <3C853C4C.B0437102@uber.com.br>

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José Romildo Malaquias wrote:

> Hello.
> 
> I have installed FreeBSD 4.5 on my box in slice ad0s4. Another day
> I have also installed Windows XP on my box in slice ad0s1. I do not
> know why, but after Windows installation, slice numbering on my
> disk was changed. Now the FreeBSD slice is ad0s3. And of course
> I am unable to boot into FreeBSD successfuly. At boot time, the
> root file system can not be mounted and I am asked what device
> file to use in mounting it. Then I tell to mount it using /dev/ad0s3a.
> It is then mounted in read only mode, but the other file systems also
> fail mounting because of the same reason. I am presented
> with a prompt for a shell to be used. In the shell I try to
> mount the remainder files systems, but the system tells me
> that the corresponding device does not exist. In fact, doing
> an 'ls -l /dev/ad0s3*' command, I see that there is only the
> /dev/ad0s3 device file. So I do not know how to proceed to
> solve this problem.


cd /dev
sh MAKEDEV ad0s3h

It will make everything.

Kent


> 
> Any clues?
> 
> Romildo
> 
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> Prof. José Romildo Malaquias               Departamento de Computação
> http://iceb.ufop.br/~romildo       Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto
> romildo@iceb.ufop.br                                           Brasil
> romildo@uber.com.br
> 
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