From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 9 17:39: 9 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns5.eds.com (ns5.eds.com [203.17.185.230]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D8AC537B407 for ; Sun, 9 Sep 2001 17:39:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nnsy.eds.com (nnsy-3.eds.com [192.168.1.1]) by ns5.eds.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f8A0cwM01024 for ; Mon, 10 Sep 2001 10:38:58 +1000 (EST) Received: from nnsy.eds.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nnsy.eds.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f8A0cu709254 for ; Mon, 10 Sep 2001 10:38:56 +1000 (EST) Received: from ausym000.exau01.exch.eds.com ([134.251.177.117]) by nnsy.eds.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f8A0ctL09250 for ; Mon, 10 Sep 2001 10:38:55 +1000 (EST) Received: by AUSYM000 with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id ; Mon, 10 Sep 2001 10:38:31 +1000 Message-ID: <16649A8D5C73D51183B80008C728EEB7CC09B2@AUSYM103> From: "Pietralla, Siegfried P" To: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: booting and fstab Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 10:39:18 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" 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 all, i've installed v4.3 on a disk in a caddy which i swap between two pc's. on one pc the disk is ad1 ( primary slave ) , on the other it's ad3 ( secondary slave ) . btw, it wouldn't even try to boot as ad2 ( secondary master ) it just hung ??? now, obviously it won't boot up successfully unless the entries in /etc/fstab match the physical configuration so as long as i remember to edit fstab before i shutdown and move the disk i'm ok. to get around this i tried duplicating ( i.e. two lines for each pn ) the entries in fstab to match both configs ( i.e. ad1s3a / AND ad3s3a / ) but it still won't boot by itself since one of these will always fail to mount. is there any way i can amend the default boot process so that it ignores errors in mounting and the system ( tries and ) comes up anyway? also, when it drops me into the default shell, how can i edit /etc/fstab since at this time / is mounted read-only? i tried to mount the root partition on /mnt as well but it wouldn't let me. thanx, siegfried. siegfried pietralla ( siegfried.pietralla@eds.com ) ph: +61 3 9675 3234 fax: +61 3 9675 3440 mob: +61 4 0481 6140 location: 15th floor 2-26 Elizabeth Street, Melbourne Vic, 3000 mail: Siegfried Pietralla 15/2, Colonial Account, EDS Australia, 436 St Kilda Rd, Melbourne Vic, 3004 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message