Date: Tue, 20 Jan 1998 02:19:31 -0500 (EST) From: "Joe \"Marcus\" Clarke" <marcus@ocala.cs.miami.edu> To: Mark Mayo <mark@vmunix.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: oops, removed a scsi disk and now I'm toast.. Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.3.96.980120021752.557A-100000@jaguar.ir.miami.edu> In-Reply-To: <19980120014645.49932@vmunix.com>
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Get the fixit and boot floppies from FreeBSD (or the boot floppy, and a FreeBSD live filesystem CD). Then boot up, and start a fixit session. You can then edit fstab to reflect the change in drive position. I just recently went through this with IDE drives. Joe Clarke On Tue, 20 Jan 1998, Mark Mayo wrote: > Stupid question of the day.. I removed a SCSI drive that was sitting > in the middle of my SCSI chain. The important fact is that is was > before my FreeBSD disk, so now what used to be sd2 is sd1.. argghh. > > Of course, FreeBSD won't boot cause fstab says everything should > be on /dev/sd2s1x . I just need to get it up so I can compile a > new kernel which expects its root to be on sd1. > > How do I fix this?? Most time when I boot and manually tell the > boot prompt to use 1:(sd1,a)/kernel it just pukes with a panic > after the hardware detect. Other time I get to the point where > I can hit return and get 'sh'. sd1a is now mounted up as > > root_device blah blah / > > according to df. I mounted up /dev/sd1s1h on /usr, and went to > vi the /etc/fstab, but alas, root_device is read-only. Ugh. Trying > to mount it again gives me a device busy error, and trying to > mount -u -o rw / uses fstab and tries to do sd2 again.. > > I'm stuck. What do I do next? :-) > > TIA, > -Mark > > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Mark Mayo mark@vmunix.com > RingZero Comp. http://www.vmunix.com/mark > > finger mark@vmunix.com for my PGP key and GCS code > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Win95/NT - 32 bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16 bit patch to > an an 8 bit operating system originally coded for a 4 bit microprocessor, > written by a 2 bit company that can't stand 1 bit of competition. -UGU >
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