From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 17 04:33:23 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1967637B405 for ; Sat, 17 May 2003 04:33:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from babyruth.hotpop.com (babyruth.hotpop.com [204.57.55.14]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B1A943FAF for ; Sat, 17 May 2003 04:33:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from teilhk@Phreaker.net) Received: from phreaker.net (kubrick.hotpop.com [204.57.55.16]) by babyruth.hotpop.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 8821B21D0A1 for ; Sat, 17 May 2003 11:33:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from dsl-200-67-187-102.prodigy.net.mx (dsl-200-67-187-102.prodigy.net.mx [200.67.187.102]) by smtp-2.hotpop.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E896180264 for ; Sat, 17 May 2003 11:33:09 +0000 (UTC) From: Teilhard Knight To: FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <20030514181527.GB69479@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> References: <1052896702.3300.17.camel@arlette.love.dad> <20030514093825.GB64005@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> <1052928350.3342.20.camel@arlette.love.dad> <20030514181527.GB69479@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Message-Id: <1053171226.14356.9.camel@arlette.love.dad> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.4-1.1mdk Date: 17 May 2003 06:33:46 -0500 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-HotPOP: ----------------------------------------------- Sent By HotPOP.com FREE Email Get your FREE POP email at www.HotPOP.com ----------------------------------------------- Subject: Re: About my problem X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 17 May 2003 11:33:23 -0000 On Wed, 2003-05-14 at 13:15, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 11:05:50AM -0500, Teilhard Knight wrote: > > > > Thank you, Matthew. I tried as you said, but I couldn't pass the first > > step. I got the message: "cannot boot /kernel, kernel module already > > loaded" Of course I tried "kernel" and other variants. If I typed > > "unload" and then what you said, I ended up with the prompt for the > > manual file system feed. > > Oops. Yes. Sorry. By the time you get to the loader prompt, the > kernel has already been loaded. You can just type: > > boot -s > > at that point. Doing the unload then the full boot path thing is a > long winded way of achieving the same effect. > > > But I could boot with a kernel back up I had > > and I made the modifications to the fstab file with a regular editor. My > > doubt was that the slices still were called ads2s2a, etc., but I > > supposed that that could change with the changes in the fstab file. I > > knew that if something went wrong, I could not boot anymore from my back > > up kernel, but I would get to the same request for a hand-input > > filesystem and I would only had to specify ad2s2a. Well, nothing worked. > > I cannot boot now. It seems to me that the utility to specify by hand > > the filesystem either doesn't work or that I have a deeper problem here. > > I am now tempted to get done with 4.8 and try 5.0. What do you think? > > Hmmm... Clarify for me: which disk is it exactly that your FreeBSD > installation is on? ie. what does 'lsdev' return at the boot loader > prompt? If you're using a GENERIC kernel, or your kernel config contains > > options ATA_STATIC_ID > > then the disks are numbered like this: > > ad0 Master on the 1st IDE bus > ad1 Slave on the 1st IDE bus > > ad2 Master on the 2nd IDE bus > ad3 Slave on the 2nd IDE bus > > If you haven't got that option in your kernel, then the disks present > in your system just get numbered in order. You confirm what I figured out was the cause of it all after getting rid of 4.8 and going into 5.0. I removed that option, I remember. I now have another problem with 5.0. If I cannot solve it, I can always go back to 4.8, where I know now at least I won't get into the same problem again. I am a very impatient bloke, if I had just waited for your feedback .... Teilhard Knight The Extraterrestrial Who ate my sandwich?