Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 00:41:40 -0500 From: Gene Harris <geneh51@swbell.net> To: David Banning <david@skytrackercanada.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mount: /dev/wd0s1a on /: Device does not match mounted device Message-ID: <000b01c0fe02$acb051c0$6401a8c0@development> References: <002201c0fdd9$a11df700$6401a8c0@development> <20010626013714.A78431@sympatico.ca>
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Thanks for the information. I was rapidly coming to this conclusion. I do have one more question. The machine that is having the boot problem does not have the /dev/ad0s1a and b slices. It does have /dev/ad0s1. Will I need to make these devices? Again, Many Thanks! Gene ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Banning" <david@skytrackercanada.com> To: "Gene Harris" <geneh51@swbell.net> Cc: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2001 1:37 AM Subject: Re: mount: /dev/wd0s1a on /: Device does not match mounted device > I had a similar problem. > Somewhere around version 4.0 wd changed to ad. > What I did was boot from the cdrom, go into fixit mode, then mounted the > drive and changed the /etc/fstab file. > Now that I am running 4.3S I find that as long as the drivers are in /dev > my fstab file can be setup with wd _or_ ad. > > On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 07:47:51PM -0500, Gene Harris wrote: > > After CVSUP'ing last night (I track 4.x-STABLE), I am unable to boot today > > use to the error message: > > mount: /dev/wd0s1a on /: Device does not match mounted device. The mount > > command shows ad0s1a on / (ufs, local, read-only). > > > > It looks like my device 'wd' has gone away. It is still in my /dev/ > > directory, but it seems the system wants to mount my root as ad0s1a, which > > does not exist in my /dev/ directory. I am unable to mount my root > > partition in read write mode so that I can correct the problem. > > > > I tried booting to kernel.old, but that does not work either; I get the same > > error message, which makes me wonder if I need to load a module from the > > modules.old directory. Any help or references on what to read would be > > greatly appreciated. I think I need to do a /dev/MAKEDEV all and I need to > > edit my /etc/fstab file to change 'wd' entries to 'ad' entries. However, > > since my file system is mounted read only, I am stuck. > > > > Thanks in advance for any help. My apologies if this message is in html, my > > windows box with Outlook express is all that I have for internet access at > > the moment. > > > > Gene > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > -- > Think big. Pollute the Mississippi. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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