Date: Sat, 13 May 2000 15:14:39 -0400 From: "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> To: Nathaniel G H <rice_burners_suck@operamail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Hard drive question - please help! Message-ID: <20000513151439.C47176@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> In-Reply-To: <3921C58D@operamail.com>; from rice_burners_suck@operamail.com on Sat, May 13, 2000 at 02:47:30PM -0400 References: <3921C58D@operamail.com>
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On Sat, May 13, 2000 at 02:47:30PM -0400, Nathaniel G H wrote: > Hi folks, please help or point me at the correct literature: > > After using Linux for some time, I recently installed FreeBSD > (3.3-release) on a new IDE drive configured as primary > master. After doing this, I had to install another IDE drive > in the same machine and for various reasons, it has to be > primary master. The FreeBSD drive is now primary slave. > > As expected, FreeBSD drop me into single-user mode on boot, > because the fstab entries are now incorrect. I need to modify > fstab but can't because the filesystem is mounted read-only! > > I need to change the FreeBSD drive back to primary master, > boot normally, modify fstab, then change the drives back. Does > anything need to be modified besides fstab? > > Please help me or point me in the right direction. (I've > already read the printed book and spent countless hours reading > the website.) Rather than get in the machine and start moving jumpers around on drives, you can boot the install floppies and go to the 'Fixit' option. Use the fixit.flp (everyone does grab one of these, right?) option in the submenu. From there, mount the root partition of the slave R-W and edit /etc/fstab appropriately. Off of the top of my head, I can't think of anything besides fstab that would be messed up with moving the HDD. It sounds like your boot process already works if you are getting to single-user mode, and that is usually the other catch when moving a drive. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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