From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun May 18 15:26:30 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2518937B401 for ; Sun, 18 May 2003 15:26:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from web20107.mail.yahoo.com (web20107.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.226.44]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AC6E643FA3 for ; Sun, 18 May 2003 15:26:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bsdneophyte@yahoo.com) Message-ID: <20030518222629.87886.qmail@web20107.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [68.66.233.46] by web20107.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Sun, 18 May 2003 15:26:29 PDT Date: Sun, 18 May 2003 15:26:29 -0700 (PDT) From: Bsd Neophyte To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Subject: need help repairing this system... mount issues X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 18 May 2003 22:26:30 -0000 a previous system failed, as a result, i was forced to move the HD to a new system. unfortuantely, the systems are quite different. the last one was a full integrated cel633 and the new system is a dual p3700 with all individualized components. after a great deal of effort, was finally able to get my system to boot the root partition. i changed the type of kernel being booted to kernel.GENERIC and i had to really struggle to find out the new disk labels. well i found that now the disk was no longer da0 but da4. so i had to boot by entering "ufs:/dev/ad4s1a" i am able to boot, but i'm having some issues now. i've tried "mount /dev/ad4s1e /usr" but this wont work. i get the following error: "mount: /dev/ad4s1a: No such file or directory" i decided to look under /dev, for some reason under the disk pointers (is that what they are called?) only go up to da3, there is no mention of da4. i really don't know what to do to mount /usr. i know i can do a reinstall, but i don't want to do that. i have some items on it that haven't been backed-up yet that i can't afford to lose. if someone can tell me how i can get this thing back and running, i would really be appreciative. thanks... __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo. http://search.yahoo.com