From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 5 1: 1: 5 2003 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 B854B37B401 for ; Wed, 5 Mar 2003 01:01:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from hobbiton.shire.net (hobbiton.shire.net [206.71.64.250]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5193643FBD for ; Wed, 5 Mar 2003 01:01:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from chad@shire.net) Received: from [204.228.149.206] (helo=shire.net) by hobbiton.shire.net with asmtp (Exim 4.10) id 18qUlq-0001wN-00; Wed, 05 Mar 2003 02:01:03 -0700 Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2003 02:00:30 -0700 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v551) Cc: Mike Meyer To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC In-Reply-To: <523325EB-4E91-11D7-949E-003065A70D30@shire.net> Message-Id: X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.551) Subject: Re: partition is "e" should be "a" -- how to fix? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-3.5 required=6.5 tests=IN_REP_TO,SUBJ_ENDS_IN_Q_MARK version=2.31 X-Spam-Level: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tuesday, Mar 4, 2003, at 15:33 US/Mountain, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: > > On Tuesday, Mar 4, 2003, at 15:24 US/Mountain, Mike Meyer wrote: >> >> Try booting the fixit cdrom, and doing the disklabel to chagne e to a >> without mounting e. >> > ok, I will see if I can scare up a CDrom drive :-) > OK, I ended up making the boot floppies and using the fixit shell to change the disklabel. All is well. Hardest part was snaking a floppy cable underneath disks and onto the MB... (also got my posts not hitting the list problem fixed -- in moving to a new provider over the weekend, there was a reverse DNS issue for my netblock, which is now fixed) Thanks for all the help Chad To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message