Date: Tue, 20 Jan 1998 01:46:45 -0500 From: Mark Mayo <mark@vmunix.com> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: oops, removed a scsi disk and now I'm toast.. Message-ID: <19980120014645.49932@vmunix.com>
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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
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