Date: Tue, 20 Jan 1998 02:36:31 -0500 From: Mark Mayo <mark@vmunix.com> To: "Joe \"Marcus\" Clarke" <marcus@ocala.cs.miami.edu> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: oops, removed a scsi disk and now I'm toast.. Message-ID: <19980120023631.62262@vmunix.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.3.96.980120021752.557A-100000@jaguar.ir.miami.edu>; from Joe "Marcus" Clarke on Tue, Jan 20, 1998 at 02:19:31AM -0500 References: <19980120014645.49932@vmunix.com> <Pine.OSF.3.96.980120021752.557A-100000@jaguar.ir.miami.edu>
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On Tue, Jan 20, 1998 at 02:19:31AM -0500, Joe "Marcus" Clarke wrote: > 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. Good idea. Never thought of that one. As it turns out, I was able to "force mount" the /dev/sd1s1a instead of /dev/sd1a and edit fstab in that fassion (as described in a mail I just sent). This might have been dangerous or something though, so I think I'll tryout the fixit floppy just to see how it works :-) Thanks, -Mark > > 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 > > -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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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