Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2001 13:58:47 -0800 (PST) From: Jim <dillweed58@yahoo.com> To: Ceri <setantae@submonkey.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Manual mount root for ATA100 Message-ID: <20011130215847.4767.qmail@web20404.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20011130110441.GA1944@rhadamanth>
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You are right. I don't see any of those devices in /dev. How do I MAKE them? Jim --- Ceri <setantae@submonkey.net> wrote: > On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 09:02:09PM -0600, > Christopher Farley wrote: > > Jim (dillweed58@yahoo.com) wrote: > > > > > ad4: 29311MB <maxtor XXXXX> [59554/16/63] at > > > ata2-master UDMA100 > > > ad5: 29311MB <maxtor XXXXX> [59554/16/63] at > > > ata2-slave UDMA100 > > > acd0: CDROM <FX4820T> at ata1-slave using PIO4 > > > Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad0s1a > > > Root mount failed: 6 > > > > It looks to me like you are trying to mount root > from /dev/ad0s1a, > > but your disk is coming up as ad4. Try changing > all your /dev/ad0xxx > > entries in /etc/fstab to /dev/ad4xxx. > > And good luck doing that, because even if you do get > it to boot into single > user (which you can do by typing ufs:/dev/ad4s1a at > that mountroot> prompt), > you'll probably find that you don't have the entries > in /dev for ad4, and you > won't be able to make them because / is mounted > read-only and you won't be > able to mount it read-write because you don't have > the entries for ad4 in /dev. > > I used sysinstall to fix this when I had that > problem, but it would have been > easier to swap the drive back onto the old IDE > controller and make the devices > first. > > Ceri > > -- > keep a mild groove on __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Buy the perfect holiday gifts at Yahoo! Shopping. http://shopping.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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