Date: 20 Aug 2003 14:14:55 -0400 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com> To: Dave Banning <sky_tracker@yahoo.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: hard drive mount points damaged - reinstall to fix? Message-ID: <44vfss19i8.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <20030819165134.77979.qmail@web12807.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20030819165134.77979.qmail@web12807.mail.yahoo.com>
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Dave Banning <sky_tracker@yahoo.com> writes: > I have two systems. One system is version 4.0 and the other 4.8S. > > I took the drive out of the 4.8 machine and mounted the slices with > the 4.0 machine. After the initial mount, which worked, I got > errors on subsequent mount attempts. > It actually puts the 4.0 machine into panic whenever I try now. > > Since that time I have tried to put the 4.8 drive back into it's home > machine, but it will not boot. This led me to booting from the cdrom > version (4.0 as this is the newest I have) and attempting to reinstall, > hoping that whatever went bad, would be overwritten new, leaving the > non-system data that I want, untouched. The cdrom-install wants > to use the existing /dev entries to reinstall system files, but since > those entries are bad, the install fails. > > Is there a way to overwrite the /dev entries and mount points on the damaged > drive, reinstall system files, but still preserve my user data? I guess you could boot a fixit disk, mount your hard drive on it, and then rebuild...
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