Date: Sun, 14 May 2000 01:38:48 +0200 From: Marc Silver <marcs@draenor.org> To: Nathaniel G H <rice_burners_suck@operamail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Hard drive question - please help! Message-ID: <20000514013848.C26453@draenor.org> 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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Once you're in single user mode: fsck -p mount -u / That should do it (works for me) Cheers, Marc 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.) > > Thank you kindly, > Nathaniel G H To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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