From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 7 17:17:48 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cx952600-a.fed1.sdca.home.com (cx952600-a.fed1.sdca.home.com [24.4.90.90]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 65AC037C2EA for ; Fri, 7 Apr 2000 17:17:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from snoonan@cx952600-a.fed1.sdca.home.com) Received: from localhost (snoonan@localhost) by cx952600-a.fed1.sdca.home.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA72698 for ; Fri, 7 Apr 2000 17:17:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from snoonan@cx952600-a.fed1.sdca.home.com) Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2000 17:17:43 -0700 (PDT) From: Sean Noonan To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Can't boot Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I botched my upgrade to 4.0-STABLE by not changing 'wd' entries to 'ad' entries in /etc/fstab. Now I can't seem to recover. If I boot into single-user mode with either kernel or kernel.GENERIC, I can't get past the "wd0: bad sector table not supported" error. It wants me to enter something similar to "ufs:/dev/wd0s1a". I've tried that, and variations like "ufs:/dev/ad0s1a". No matter what I do it rejects what I type. (I've even tried setting rootdev=/dev/ad0s1a, as suggested by Mark Ovens in response to my earlier cry for help--thanks Mark). If I boot into single-user mode with kernel.old, I can get past booting (well sorta). It mounts /, and only /, as read-only. I can't seem to remount it read/write. The mount command simply refuses and spits back "Block device required". Please help me, I'm desperate. I'll do anything to avoid the standard M$ answer of "reinstall from the ground up". TIA, -Sean Noonan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message