From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 19 18:11:46 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from out0.mx.nwbl.wi.voyager.net (out0.mx.nwbl.wi.voyager.net [169.207.1.78]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2160437B409 for ; Wed, 19 Sep 2001 18:11:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from earth.execpc.com (dpoland@earth.execpc.com [169.207.16.1]) by out0.mx.nwbl.wi.voyager.net (8.11.4/8.11.4/1.7) with ESMTP id f8K1BsI13574 for ; Wed, 19 Sep 2001 20:11:54 -0500 (CDT) Received: (from dpoland@localhost) by earth.execpc.com (8.9.0) id UAA21023 for questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 19 Sep 2001 20:11:40 -0500 (CDT) Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2001 20:11:40 -0500 From: Doug Poland To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: lost all ad0 devices, can't boot, a little help please Message-ID: <20010919201139.A20587@execpc.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre3us Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, I'm writing from the emergency fixit shell on a 4.4 RC0 box. Somehow, I've lost all my /dev entries for my IDE hard-drive (ad0s3...) This is what I get on boot attempt: Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad0s3a no such device 'ad' setrootbyname failed ffs_mountroot: can't find rootvp Root mount failed: 6 I've managed to boot from 4.3-REL CD#2 and get a fixit shell going with connectivity to my network. My questions are: 1. how do I mount the hard-drive slices? 2. how do I rebuild the /dev entries? Many thanks in advance... -- Dead in the water for now, Doug To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message