From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 20 3:15: 4 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from andrsn.stanford.edu (andrsn.Stanford.EDU [171.66.112.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 35BC437B40B for ; Thu, 20 Sep 2001 03:15:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (andrsn@localhost.stanford.edu [127.0.0.1]) by andrsn.stanford.edu (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id DAA09557; Thu, 20 Sep 2001 03:07:59 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 03:07:59 -0700 (PDT) From: Annelise Anderson To: Doug Poland Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: lost all ad0 devices, can't boot, a little help please In-Reply-To: <20010919201139.A20587@execpc.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 On Wed, 19 Sep 2001, Doug Poland wrote: > 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... > Look at the /mnt2/stand directory to see the commands available to you. Perhaps: Fixit# mount /dev/ad0s3a /mnt will work. The /mnt directory should then be the / partition on your hard drive. cd /mnt/dev and try: sh MAKEDEV all sh MAKEDEV ad0s3 sh MAKEDEV ad0s3a Hope that helps; I find #Fixit difficult. Annelise -- Annelise Anderson Author of: FreeBSD: An Open-Source Operating System for Your PC Book Website: http://www.bittreepress.com/FreeBSD/introbook/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message