Date: Tue, 05 Mar 2002 16:16:46 -0800 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com> To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jos=E9?= Romildo Malaquias <romildo@uber.com.br> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD installed slice was renamead by Windows XP installer Message-ID: <3C855FEE.7090509@owt.com> References: <3C853C4C.B0437102@uber.com.br>
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José Romildo Malaquias wrote: > Hello. > > I have installed FreeBSD 4.5 on my box in slice ad0s4. Another day > I have also installed Windows XP on my box in slice ad0s1. I do not > know why, but after Windows installation, slice numbering on my > disk was changed. Now the FreeBSD slice is ad0s3. And of course > I am unable to boot into FreeBSD successfuly. At boot time, the > root file system can not be mounted and I am asked what device > file to use in mounting it. Then I tell to mount it using /dev/ad0s3a. > It is then mounted in read only mode, but the other file systems also > fail mounting because of the same reason. I am presented > with a prompt for a shell to be used. In the shell I try to > mount the remainder files systems, but the system tells me > that the corresponding device does not exist. In fact, doing > an 'ls -l /dev/ad0s3*' command, I see that there is only the > /dev/ad0s3 device file. So I do not know how to proceed to > solve this problem. cd /dev sh MAKEDEV ad0s3h It will make everything. Kent > > Any clues? > > Romildo > > -- > Prof. José Romildo Malaquias Departamento de Computação > http://iceb.ufop.br/~romildo Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto > romildo@iceb.ufop.br Brasil > romildo@uber.com.br > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > . > > -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kbstew99@hotmail.com http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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