From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 25 18:07:18 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BDA5116A4CE for ; Wed, 25 Aug 2004 18:07:18 +0000 (GMT) Received: from services.homebass.ca (services.homebass.ca [66.11.177.154]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 34DE043D49 for ; Wed, 25 Aug 2004 18:07:18 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from liquid@homebass.ca) Received: (qmail 17964 invoked by uid 1201); 25 Aug 2004 18:09:24 -0000 Received: from liquid@homebass.ca by services.homebass.ca by uid 89 with qmail-scanner-1.22 (clamdscan: 0.74. spamassassin: 2.63. Clear:RC:1(192.168.0.150):. Processed in 0.065533 secs); 25 Aug 2004 18:09:24 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO LAPTOP) (liquid@homebass.ca@192.168.0.150) by services.homebass.ca with SMTP; 25 Aug 2004 18:09:24 -0000 From: "LiQuiD" To: Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 14:07:23 -0400 Message-ID: <000701c48ace$5f108230$9600a8c0@LAPTOP> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.2616 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1441 In-Reply-To: <44hdqrurci.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Importance: Normal Subject: RE: installed ATA RAID, now cannot boot - get mountroot prompt X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 18:07:18 -0000 I'm by no means an expert, and thus the reason for my "crude and unscientific" solution that I'm proposing Seeing as you now know what it'll turn into upon adding this RAID card to your system, why don't you try the "crude" method of undoing everything, booting successfully, and then editing /etc/fstab accordingly just prior to shutting it back down to allow for a successful boot once you put the new hardware back in? The link to the FAQ mentioned below won't work for this scenario IMO because his /etc/fstab is currently inaccurate. Merely typing mount / would still generate an error. You could however type mount /dev/da0s1e / perhaps to get what you want though. > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd- > questions@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Lowell Gilbert > Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2004 12:15 PM > To: iwrTech@iwr.ru.ac.za > Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: installed ATA RAID, now cannot boot - get mountroot prompt > > "DA Forsyth" writes: > > > I'm searching the web for answers on this too, but so far nothing > > useful. hard to know what question to ask the search engines! > > "I made a mistake in rc.conf, or another startup file, and now I > cannot edit it because the filesystem is read-only. What should I do?" > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/admin.html#RCCONF- > READONLY > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions- > unsubscribe@freebsd.org"