Date: Wed, 21 May 2003 08:12:59 -0400 From: "Doug Reynolds" <mav@wastegate.net> To: "Bsd Neophyte" <bsdneophyte@yahoo.com>, "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: need help repairing this system... mount issues Message-ID: <20030521121629.01A3A48463@wastegate.net> In-Reply-To: <20030518222629.87886.qmail@web20107.mail.yahoo.com>
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On Sun, 18 May 2003 15:26:29 -0700 (PDT), Bsd Neophyte wrote: >a previous system failed, as a result, i was forced to move the HD to a >new system. unfortuantely, the systems are quite different. the last one >was a full integrated cel633 and the new system is a dual p3700 with all >individualized components. > >after a great deal of effort, was finally able to get my system to boot >the root partition. i changed the type of kernel being booted to >kernel.GENERIC and i had to really struggle to find out the new disk >labels. > >well i found that now the disk was no longer da0 but da4. so i had to >boot by entering "ufs:/dev/ad4s1a" > >i am able to boot, but i'm having some issues now. > >i've tried "mount /dev/ad4s1e /usr" but this wont work. i get the >following error: "mount: /dev/ad4s1a: No such file or directory" > >i decided to look under /dev, for some reason under the disk pointers (is >that what they are called?) only go up to da3, there is no mention of da4. > i really don't know what to do to mount /usr. > >i know i can do a reinstall, but i don't want to do that. i have some >items on it that haven't been backed-up yet that i can't afford to lose. > >if someone can tell me how i can get this thing back and running, i would >really be appreciative. first you'll have to: cd /dev ./MAKEDEV ad4 (that should do it, but I'd also do ad5 ad6 ad7 as well, or da4 etc etc) and then change /etc/fstab to reflect the mount changes --- doug reynolds | the maverick | mav@wastegate.net
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