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Date:      Thu, 19 Feb 1998 15:26:13 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Nick Liu <nickliu@value.net>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: I mess up my drive
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980219152525.658L-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.95.980218214531.2300A-100000@value.net>

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On Wed, 18 Feb 1998, Nick Liu wrote:

> I tried the upgrade option and I didn't pay attention to my hard disk 
> slices.  The naming on my old root is mounted with /dev/sd01a while the

you mean /dev/sd0s1a

> upgrade function changed it to sd0a.  It changes something on the
> disk which caused me from loading kernel at all.

What error messages do you get?

>  After that I attempted
> to restart with a fix disk by specifying sd(0,1a)/kernel and
> sd(0,a)/kernel but none of them worked.

sd(0,a)/kernel should work.  This implies that your kernel was corrupted
or you tried to do `install' instead of `upgrade'.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major



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