From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 11 18:20:17 2003 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 500BA37B401 for ; Tue, 11 Mar 2003 18:20:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from hobbiton.shire.net (hobbiton.shire.net [206.71.64.250]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A510543FBF for ; Tue, 11 Mar 2003 18:20:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from chad@shire.net) Received: from [204.228.149.206] (helo=shire.net) by hobbiton.shire.net with asmtp (Exim 4.10) id 18svqm-0002Ca-00; Tue, 11 Mar 2003 19:20:12 -0700 Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 19:20:09 -0700 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v551) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org To: Martin McCormick From: Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC In-Reply-To: <200303120208.h2C2815b085934@dc.cis.okstate.edu> Message-Id: <2587A9D4-5431-11D7-BD73-003065A70D30@shire.net> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.551) Subject: Re: Mounting a Bootable FreeBSD disk Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-3.4 required=6.5 tests=IN_REP_TO version=2.31 X-Spam-Level: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG try using /dev/da1s1a for the root partition slice of the hot added disk with the bootable system on it. Chad On Tuesday, Mar 11, 2003, at 19:08 US/Mountain, Martin McCormick wrote: > This is a time when I don't understand all I know yet. I > just built a system using the FreeBSD4.7 CDROM and then removed > that bootable drive and temporarily added it to another identical > FreeBSD box as a second drive. > > I added it hot for practice in an upcoming upgrade and > used camcontrol rescan 0:1:0 to get the running system to see the > new drive. This appeared to go without a hitch and the kernel > printed several diagnostic messages about the new drive. Good, > so far. > > I know that secondary drives containing a UNIX file > system are extremely easy to mount. > > This bootable drive, when in its proper slot, brings a > system right up with no errors. When I try to run fsck on > /dev/da1 or mount /dev/da1s1 on /mnt, the complaint is of a bad > superblock. > > Should a regular mount command work? > > Unless the SCSI start up procedure corrupted the drive, I > don't see why there should be any complaint. > > Again, my procedure was to run camcontrol rescan 0:1:0 to > make the system see the new SCSI device. Then I tried to fsck > and or mount and that's when I got all the bad superblock > messages. > > The disk in question is bootable right in to FreeBSD with > no boot manager or multiple OS's. It is as simple as it gets. > > The plan is to temporarily mount the drive, make a tar > ball of the whole thing, and then put it back in its home server. > > The errors remind me of what I saw the first time I ever > tried to mount a DOS-formatted floppy disk or a CDROM before I > read about the special forms of mount that exist in FreeBSD. > Many thanks to all of you. > > Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK > OSU Center for Computing and Information Services Network Operations > Group > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message