From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 16 9:23:14 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.nwlink.com (smtp.nwlink.com [209.20.130.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F2C1E37BC44 for ; Thu, 16 Mar 2000 09:23:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rjoseph@nwlink.com) Received: from ip15.r9.d.bel.nwlink.com (ip15.r9.d.bel.nwlink.com [207.202.174.15]) by smtp.nwlink.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA29662; Thu, 16 Mar 2000 09:21:53 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 09:16:01 -0800 (PST) From: R Joseph Wright X-Sender: rjoseph@mammalia.sea To: J McKitrick Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HELP! on 4.0 upgrade In-Reply-To: <20000316164402.B11889@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> 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 Thu, 16 Mar 2000, J McKitrick wrote: > I knew i would find a way to botch this.... Stay calm, you'll get there =) > Not sure why, but the first reboot paniced and rebooted again. I > think i forgot to change rc.conf to ad0 devices, but i'm not sure. I > didn't think i needed to. > > swapon: /dev/ad0s1b: block device required > auto reboot in progress > can't open /dev/ad0s1e: evice not configured It isn't rc.conf, it's /etc/fstab. Change the "w's" to "a's". It also looks like you may have forgotten to create slice entries in /dev. Do: sh MAKEDEV ad0s1a This will make all slices from a through h. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message