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Date:      Sun, 31 Oct 1999 19:16:09 -0800 (PST)
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
To:        Graey <slayer@locutus.plaidranch.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: moving wd1(freebsd) to wd0
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9910311915070.12797-100000@fw.wintelcom.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.20.9910311837200.26198-100000@locutus.plaidranch.org>

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On Sun, 31 Oct 1999, Graey wrote:

> 
> My system has(had) two harddrives, wd0 with win95 and wd1 with freebsd.  I
> want to take the win drive out and only have freebsd in.  I installed a
> boot manager to the freebsd drive.  I editted fstab and changed all
> /dev/wd1 to /dev/wd0.  I removed the windows drive and set the jumper on
> the freebsd drive to master.  It boots fine, but I get /dev/wd0 no such
> device when it goes to load up wd0.  What did I do wrong and how can I fix
> it?

You probably don't have the required devices in /dev, you need to 
somehow mount your root device (possibly by temporarily moving the
drive back to wd1) and do this:

cd /dev ; sh MAKEDEV wd0s1e

-Alfred



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