Date: Wed, 21 May 2003 14:23:52 -0500 From: Chris Pressey <cpressey@catseye.mb.ca> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: About my problem Message-ID: <20030521142352.15cea1a4.cpressey@catseye.mb.ca> In-Reply-To: <20030521093151.GA94445@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> References: <1052896702.3300.17.camel@arlette.love.dad> <20030514093825.GB64005@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> <20030521014213.7600e2f1.cpressey@catseye.mb.ca> <20030521093151.GA94445@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk>
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On Wed, 21 May 2003 10:31:51 +0100 Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> wrote: > If you know in advance that you're going to be moving the drive to a > different device, then you'll save yourself a lot of trouble simply by > editing the /etc/fstab to match the new location *before* you shutdown > the system and move the drive from the original. Shutting down the > system with a non-matching fstab is a lot easier than booting it up. Very much agreed. I'll make certain to find out where I'm going to be putting the drive in ahead of time, next time. > [...] > Unfortunately I'm not in a position to investigate further so I can't > provide any better advice right now. However, I think that if you > care to experiment the next step would be simply to 'boot -s' from the > loader without trying to reset any of the loader variables. D'oh! Of all the permutations I tried, that might be the one I overlooked. I'll keep it in mind, but I'll definately count more on foresight in the future. Thanks for your help. -Chris
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