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Date:      Fri, 9 May 2003 14:30:18 -0700
From:      Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>
To:        Tim Kientzle <kientzle@acm.org>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Can't boot from ad4: Device Not Configured?
Message-ID:  <20030509213016.GA20528@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu>
In-Reply-To: <3EBC1D76.2050009@acm.org>
References:  <20030508221553.B89449-100000@voo.doo.net> <3EBAC016.7020108@acm.org> <20030508204351.GA23694@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> <3EBC1D76.2050009@acm.org>

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On Fri, May 09, 2003 at 02:28:22PM -0700, Tim Kientzle wrote:
> That this doesn't work concerns me:  If
> my separate IDE controller blows up and I have
> to plug the drive back in as ad0, I'm going
> to be in big trouble if it won't boot.  :(

What I ended up doing was using a fixit CD to do the editing and device
node creation.  It was a pain, but it worked.  I agree it would be nice
if you could at least get to single user mode without dev entries or a
correct fstab though.

-- Brooks

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