From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 22 18:43:00 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 1F6F916A41F for ; Fri, 22 Jul 2005 18:43:00 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from pi.codefab.com (pi.codefab.com [199.103.21.227]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87A7743D48 for ; Fri, 22 Jul 2005 18:42:59 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id F228D5F7E; Fri, 22 Jul 2005 14:42:58 -0400 (EDT) Received: from pi.codefab.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (pi.codefab.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 10657-07; Fri, 22 Jul 2005 14:42:49 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [192.168.1.3] (pool-68-161-54-113.ny325.east.verizon.net [68.161.54.113]) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id CFA355F75; Fri, 22 Jul 2005 14:42:48 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <42E13E2B.60300@mac.com> Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 14:42:51 -0400 From: Chuck Swiger Organization: The Courts of Chaos User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ima Camper References: <20050722183202.36841.qmail@web30003.mail.mud.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20050722183202.36841.qmail@web30003.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at codefab.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can't Mount Root X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 18:43:00 -0000 Ima Camper wrote: [ ... ] > da0 is my boot disk and contains /. However when I > configured the disk using sysinstall during > installation, I set it up as "dangerously dedicated". > Now I wonder if my problem is that I should have used > "bsdlabel -B /dev/da0" instead of "da0s1a" when > attempting to install boot blocks? I suspect your device name ought to be /dev/da0a. If you are at the boot prompt, what happens if you enter a "?"...? Anyway, if you tell it the right place, and your fstab is OK, you ought to boot into the system as normal, from which point you can re-run bsdlabel with the right device name. Otherwise, boot off of an install CD, and run the command from a shell. You can also begin a custom install and exit after wrws; g just a new boot block via sysinstall, too. -- -Chuck