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Date:      Fri, 17 Aug 2001 04:35:22 -0500 (EST)
From:      "Philip M. Gollucci" <philip@p6m7g8.com>
To:        Milo Hyson <milo@cyberlifelabs.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions List <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Disks moved around -- can't boot -- help!!!
Message-ID:  <20010817043251.A26498-100000@p6m7g8.student.umd.edu>
In-Reply-To: <NBEEIDNHJPFDIKAABHKKKEDNCGAA.milo@cyberlifelabs.com>

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try in single usermode
mount /
if that fails
fsck -p /
then try again
mount /

IF all that fails... assuming you still have /kernel.GENERIC available to
boot from, you might try that.

When it says push enter to boot immediately, hit any other key.
then type
boot /kernel.GENERIC

Hope that helps...


If all this fails, temporarily take the other drive out, put the FreeBSD
back where it was, boot up.... edit/save the /etc/fstab file, then put
both drives back in and you might get lucky.


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On Sat, 18 Aug 2001, Milo Hyson wrote:

> I hope this is an easy one for somebody out there.
>
> I had a single drive IDE system and recently added another so that I could
> dual boot. However, due to requirements in a certain "other OS" the new
> drive had to be the primary master. Thus when FreeBSD boots up now, it
> freaks out because its partitions are not where they're supposed to be
> (ad0s1 is now ad1s1, etc.) . Fortunately, it's able to locate the root
> partition and go into single user mode. However, I can't update my
> /etc/fstab because it won't let me re-mount root in read-write mode.
>
> Anybody have any suggestions?
>
> - Milo Hyson
> CyberLife Labs, LLC
>
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