From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 21 05:09:28 2003 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 CA16937B401 for ; Wed, 21 May 2003 05:09:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sccrmhc02.attbi.com (sccrmhc02.attbi.com [204.127.202.62]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9ADFA43F75 for ; Wed, 21 May 2003 05:09:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mav@wastegate.net) Received: from wastegate.net (12-226-185-104.client.attbi.com[12.226.185.104]) by attbi.com (sccrmhc02) with ESMTP id <20030521120927002002mkbte>; Wed, 21 May 2003 12:09:27 +0000 Received: from MOTHER (mother.wg.local [192.168.1.5]) by wastegate.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 01A3A48463; Wed, 21 May 2003 08:16:28 -0400 (EDT) From: "Doug Reynolds" To: "Bsd Neophyte" , "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Date: Wed, 21 May 2003 08:12:59 -0400 Priority: Normal X-Mailer: PMMail 2000 Professional (2.20.2657) For Windows 2000 (5.1.2600;1) In-Reply-To: <20030518222629.87886.qmail@web20107.mail.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <20030521121629.01A3A48463@wastegate.net> Subject: Re: need help repairing this system... mount issues 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, 21 May 2003 12:09:29 -0000 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