Date: Mon, 19 May 2003 10:08:26 +1000 (EST) From: Andy Farkas <andyf@speednet.com.au> To: Bsd Neophyte <bsdneophyte@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: need help repairing this system... mount issues Message-ID: <20030519100330.Q93323-100000@hewey.af.speednet.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20030518235412.94908.qmail@web20107.mail.yahoo.com>
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On Sun, 18 May 2003, Bsd Neophyte wrote:
> however, i'm still getting the same issue with your method. the following
> errors appear:
>
> mknod: ad4: Read-only file system
> /sbin/mknod ad4
>
> this happens about 5 times starting with ad4 and ending with ad4s4. how
> can i resolve this?
Sounds like you've booted into single user mode and not remounted the file
systems. Try this (starting from scratch):
boot -s
fsck -p
mount -u /
mount -a
adjkerntz -i
cd /dev
sh MAKEDEV ad4
sh MAKEDEV ad4s1a
fsck /dev/ad4s1[a-i]
>
> what has happend is that i've added a maxtor ata/100 controller. this
> older BX board only supports ata/33 so i figure i might as well use the
> full potential of this drive. the odd thing is that i've disabled native
> motherboard controllers, so why is this drive still listed as ad4?
Because you have "options ATA_STATIC_ID" compiled into the kernel.
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:{ andyf@speednet.com.au
Andy Farkas
System Administrator
Speednet Communications
http://www.speednet.com.au/
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