Date: Wed, 21 May 2003 08:14:41 -0400 From: "Doug Reynolds" <mav@wastegate.net> To: "Bsd Neophyte" <bsdneophyte@yahoo.com>, "Matthew Seaman" <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: need help repairing this system... mount issues Message-ID: <20030521121810.A00A248463@wastegate.net> In-Reply-To: <20030518231813.GA97646@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk>
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On Mon, 19 May 2003 00:18:13 +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: >On Sun, May 18, 2003 at 03:26:29PM -0700, 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. > >Uh -- which sort of disk drive do you have? IDE/ATA use the 'ad' >driver, SCSI use 'da'. You seem to be confusing the two. If you've >got SCSI disks, then you'ld have to boot from ufs:/dev/da4s1a and try >and mount /dev/da4s1e. On the other hand if you've dot IDE drives >then you should be looking for the device files matching /dev/ad4* If >the device files are missing, you can generate them from single user >mode by: > > # cd /dev > # ./MAKEDEV ad4 > >which should create a whole set of device files ad4, ad4s1, ad4s1a, >ad4s1b etc. > >However, that's unlikely as most systems can only take 4 ATA drives >(ad0, ad1, ad2 and ad3). if you have an addon Promise/Maxtor ATA card, or any addon ATA/IDE controller, it jumps to ad4 --- doug reynolds | the maverick | mav@wastegate.net
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