From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 19 15:26:43 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA14104 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 19 Feb 1998 15:26:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA14027 for ; Thu, 19 Feb 1998 15:26:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id PAA00728; Thu, 19 Feb 1998 15:26:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1998 15:26:13 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Nick Liu cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: I mess up my drive In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message