From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 13 16:38:57 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from draenor.org (draenor.org [196.36.119.129]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC04C37B922 for ; Sat, 13 May 2000 16:38:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marcs@draenor.org) Received: from marcs by draenor.org with local (Exim 3.13 #1) id 12qlUe-0007Dh-00; Sun, 14 May 2000 01:38:48 +0200 Date: Sun, 14 May 2000 01:38:48 +0200 From: Marc Silver To: Nathaniel G H Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Hard drive question - please help! Message-ID: <20000514013848.C26453@draenor.org> References: <3921C58D@operamail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <3921C58D@operamail.com>; from rice_burners_suck@operamail.com on Sat, May 13, 2000 at 02:47:30PM -0400 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.0-STABLE Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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