Date: Mon, 20 May 2002 10:16:50 -0600 From: Ian <freebsd@damnhippie.dyndns.org> To: Pete French <pfrench@firstcallgroup.co.uk>, <stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: odd question about slices Message-ID: <B90E7D92.D2A1%freebsd@damnhippie.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <E179kks-0008oH-00@mailhost.firstcallgroup.co.uk>
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On 05/20/02 04:51, Pete French wrote:
> We had a machine here which was, for historical reasons, booting
> off drive 2 rather than its normal boot drive. As its a Compaq I
> decided one day to swapthe drives round so that it bootd in the normal
> way.
>
> [snip]
>
> This does not work. In order to get it to work I have to remove the slices
> from the fstab so that it looks like this:
>
> /dev/da0a / ufs rw 1 1
> /dev/da0b none swap sw 0 0
> /dev/da0e /var ufs rw 2 2
> /dev/da0f /usr ufs rw 2 2
> /dev/da1s1e /usr/local ufs rw 2 2
>
> Can anyone explain this behaviour to me ? It seems to work O.K., but I
> feel sightly uneasy as the partitioning information sseems to act differently
> depending on whether the drive is SCSI ID 0 or 1 ! Which doesnt seem right
> to me somehow.
>
> I thought I had a good grip on how this worked, maybe not....
>
> (system is running STABLE-RC2)
>
> -pcf.
>
It looks like you need to make device entries for the s2 slice of da0.
cd /dev ; MAKEDEV da0s2
That should fix things up for you, I think. (I've been burned by this
myself more than once when changing the scsi IDs of devices.)
-- Ian
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