From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 25 14:54:13 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 824C716A4CE for ; Wed, 25 Aug 2004 14:54:13 +0000 (GMT) Received: from elephant.ru.ac.za (elephant.ru.ac.za [146.231.128.21]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8823443D53 for ; Wed, 25 Aug 2004 14:54:12 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from IwrTech@iwr.ru.ac.za) Received: from iwr.ru.ac.za ([146.231.64.249]:2156) by elephant.ru.ac.za with esmtp (Exim 4.41 (FreeBSD)) id 1BzzA6-000LHG-TC for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 25 Aug 2004 16:54:07 +0200 Received: from IWR/SpoolDir by iwr.ru.ac.za (Mercury 1.48); 25 Aug 04 16:54:07 +0200 Received: from SpoolDir by IWR (Mercury 1.48); 25 Aug 04 16:53:59 +0200 Received: from iwr50-98 (146.231.64.122) by iwr.ru.ac.za (Mercury 1.48) with ESMTP; 25 Aug 04 16:53:52 +0200 From: "DA Forsyth" Organization: IWR To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 16:53:51 GMT+2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <412CC41E.6985.5394A58@localhost> Priority: normal Message-Id: <44101093445630-7767239347600@IWR50.412.spamsucks.net> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v4.12a) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-description: Mail message body X-Spam-Score: -4.9 (----) Subject: installed ATA RAID, now cannot boot - get mountroot prompt X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: iwrTech@iwr.ru.ac.za List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 14:54:13 -0000 Hiya all 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! anyhow, the situation: I installed 5.2.1-R some time back as a start to making a new server. I used a 40 and an 80 Gb IDE drive plugged into the motherboard Now I've got an Adaptec 2400a IDE RAID card and have installed it. I created to raid 1 packs (2x40 and 2x80) and behold it starts to boot, finds all the drives etc, no problems, but then it cannot find root as root WAS on /dev/ad0s1a and is now on /dev/da0s1a I get a mountroot> prompt and I type ufs:/dev/da0s1a and it starts to boot but obviously gets a lot of errors because /etc/fstab contains the old drives names. I eventually get a shell but cannot now edit fstab because only root has mounted and all the editors are 'somewhere unmounted' now I'm lost. how to do edit fstab to get it to mount the partitions? doubly lost because I know I can mount them manually but don't know the parameters for 'mount' and , yes, 'man' won't work either. yes, I'm still new at this BSD thing.... please help anyway. -- DA Fo rsyth Network Supervisor Principal Technical Officer -- Institute for Water Research http://www.ru.ac.za/institutes/iwr/