From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 18 13:26: 0 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail8.sc.rr.com (fe8.southeast.rr.com [24.93.67.55]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 48FA237B400 for ; Thu, 18 Jan 2001 13:25:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from sc.rr.com ([24.88.102.101]) by mail8.sc.rr.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.537.53); Thu, 18 Jan 2001 16:23:49 -0500 Received: (from dmaddox@localhost) by sc.rr.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f0ILQXE00580; Thu, 18 Jan 2001 16:26:33 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from dmaddox) Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 16:26:33 -0500 From: "Donald J . Maddox" To: Murray Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Can't open /dev/ad1s1b: Device not configured Message-ID: <20010118162633.A539@cae88-102-101.sc.rr.com> Reply-To: dmaddox@sc.rr.com Mail-Followup-To: Murray , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20010118141012.A5113@converging.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010118141012.A5113@converging.net>; from mgd@brutus.converging.net on Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 02:10:13PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I imagine that the order of drives is not the same on the new box as it was on the old one, i.e., maybe what was ad1 is now ad0? :) You will need to edit your /etc/fstab to reflect the correct drive setup on the new machine. On Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 02:10:13PM -0700, Murray wrote: > > ad0: 515MB [1048/16/63] at ata0-master PI03 ^^^ > Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad1s1a ^^^ Not good :) > Root mount failed:6 > Mounting root from ufs:wd0s1a > swapon: /dev/ad1s1b: Device not configured > Automatic boot in progress... > Can't open /dev/ad1s1a: Device not configured > /dev/ad1s1a: CAN'T CHECK FILE SYSTEM. > /dev/ad1s1a: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY. > Automatic file system check failed... help! > Enter full pathname of shell or RETURN for /bin/sh: > > If I except the default shell and run fsck, I get the following > errors: > Can't open /dev/ad1s1a: Device not configured > Can't open /dev/ad1s1f: Device not configured > Can't open /dev/ad1s1e: Device not configured > > I am a bit puzzled by this. I should be able to swap the drives boot > with the generic kernel and then edit the kernel, recompile and then > whoosh, a new box. > > How does one recover from such a scenario, take the short long way and > start from the beginning? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message