From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 18 14:31: 2 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp8.xs4all.nl (smtp8.xs4all.nl [194.109.127.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 58C0437B408 for ; Sat, 18 Aug 2001 14:30:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from walter@binity.com) Received: from unity.zacha.xs4all.nl (zacha.xs4all.nl [213.84.201.224]) by smtp8.xs4all.nl (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA14483; Sat, 18 Aug 2001 23:30:53 +0200 (CEST) Received: from silver.zacha.xs4all.nl (silver.zacha.xs4all.nl [172.23.3.10]) by unity.zacha.xs4all.nl (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f7ILUtC11735; Sat, 18 Aug 2001 23:31:08 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from walter@binity.com) Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2001 23:33:12 +0200 From: Walter Hop X-Mailer: The Bat! (v1.53d) Educational Organization: Binity X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <1416454641.20010818233312@binity.com> To: "Milo Hyson" Cc: "FreeBSD Questions List" Subject: Re[2]: Disks moved around -- can't boot -- help!!! In-Reply-To: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [in reply to milo@cyberlifelabs.com, 18-08-2001] > One problem. There are no device nodes for the new slices. The current > slices are ad0s1a, ad0s1b, ad0s1e and ad0s1f. There are nodes for ad1, ad1a > through ad1h and ad1s1 through ad1s4. Funny, I had the same problem last week (ad1 moved to ad0). After moving a disk to a new machine, boot failed and I could not mount it read-write because the right devices were missing. I'm sure there is a better method, but I did the following: *] Booted with kern.flp and mfsroot.flp, went to "Fixit" with fixit.flp *] On the Fixit floppy, in /mnt2/dev/ if I recall correctly, I did a: sh ./MAKEDEV ad0s1a (the ad0 dev entries were absent) *] I could now mount the hard drive with: mount -t ufs ./ad0s1a /mnt *] On the hard drive I remade the devices as well: cd /mnt/dev/; sh ./MAKEDEV ad0s1a *] Then edited /etc/fstab to reflect the new drive (ad0 instead of ad1), and rebooted. Hope this helps, walter -- Walter Hop | +31 6 24290808 | Finger for public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message