From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 24 14:02:02 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA28361 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 24 Jul 1998 14:02:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from www.schell.de (root@[195.20.238.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA28325 for ; Fri, 24 Jul 1998 14:01:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sas@schell.de) Received: from guerilla.foo.bar (root@hennen19.iserlohn.netsurf.de [194.195.194.211]) by www.schell.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id XAA01877 for ; Fri, 24 Jul 1998 23:01:27 +0200 Received: from localhost (root@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by guerilla.foo.bar (8.9.0/8.9.0) with SMTP id WAA00726 for ; Fri, 24 Jul 1998 22:57:18 +0200 Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1998 22:57:17 +0200 (MET DST) From: Sascha Schumann Reply-To: sas@schell.de To: freebsd-questions Subject: MAKEDEV on ro wd 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 Hi all, I've installed FreeBSD from the net some days ago on a PC with the following IDE layout: wd0: normal disk wd1: cdrom wd2: freebsd installed here Everything is working there. Now I wanted to use the wd2 disk in another computer, which has the following config: wd0: win/linux partitions (slices, eh ;) (lilo as booter) wd1: freebsd installed here wd2: linux only wd3: cdrom What's the problem now? I can boot from the wd1 disk, the kernel is loading fine, but it stucks on mounting the standard partitions. This is caused by o I forgot to change /etc/fstab (still pointing to wd2*) o /dev/wd1s1[a-f] does not exists (and I cannot get rw access to the system to use MAKEDEV) So, when booting in FreeBSD, I get this kind of rescue shell where the root fs /dev/wd1s1 is mounted read only. How do I get around this? mount doesn't know a "-o remount" option and a "mount root_device /" bumps on me with a "cannot remount read-writable...run fsck manually". Is there any way I can avoid playing with the hds again? Thanks for your help, Sascha To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message