From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 3 07:29:38 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id HAA08603 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 3 Nov 1997 07:29:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from blackhole.dimensional.com (blackhole.dimensional.com [208.206.176.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id HAA08598 for ; Mon, 3 Nov 1997 07:29:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gerard@dimensional.com) Received: from flatland.dimensional.com (gerard@flatland.dimensional.com [208.206.176.24]) by blackhole.dimensional.com (8.8.7/8.8.nospam) with SMTP id IAA05751 for ; Mon, 3 Nov 1997 08:29:34 -0700 (MST) Date: Mon, 3 Nov 1997 08:29:33 -0700 (MST) From: Gerard Giamberdine To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Boot manager and switching hard drives (part 2) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >> >> I've recently changed my hard drives around and am having difficulty >> getting FreeBSD going again. Old setup: >> Primary master 1G: Freebsd >> Primary slave 420M: Win3.1 >> New setup: >> PM 4G: Win95 >> Secondary master 1G: Freebsd (unchanged) >> Secondary slave 420M: Future Freebsd partition >> >> How do I create a new boot manager on the 4G, change the one on the 1G, >> and then get it to find Freebsd's new location from then on? I've tried >> various things with the boot and fixit floppies without success. >> Fbsdboot'ing from the 4G results in a can't find root:panic. Thanks >> for your help! > Enter > 1:wd(2,a)kernel > at the boot: prompt. The "wd(2,a)" tells the kernel, which device to > mount as root device. To avoid entering the bootstring each time, you > might want to use nextboot(8). > Wolfgang Ok. It finds the root and enters the emergency shell. However I'm unable to edit any files or remake the devices (message- Read only file system) - like I don't actually have root permissions. Also, vi complains 'unknown terminal type' and won't start - is this the TERM variable (and what should it be set to)?. Thanks again for your help! Gerard Giamberdine gerard@dimensional.com