Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2001 18:27:54 -0700 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: "Aaron" <click46@webpimps.net> Cc: "Tim" <tim@futuresouth.com>, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 3ware Escalade 6200 RAID Controller Message-ID: <200108260127.f7Q1Rsn22431@mass.dis.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 23 Aug 2001 16:14:42 PDT." <20010823231651.B00C137B405@hub.freebsd.org>
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> Using the two boot floppies from the /floppies directory, how do you
> edit /etc/fstab? I tried dearly to just find a friggin editor or
> SOMETHING. Hm, come to think of it I didnt try to mount it using the boot
> floppies. So could you do something like, boot with the boot floppies,
> mount your root partition - run vi from your hard drive and
> edit /etc/fstab and then reboot? I KNEW IT! I told myself - "The
> documentation says FreeBSD users hate having to reinstall..so there must
> be away around this without reinstalling".
Set vfs.root.mountfrom in the loader to the device you want to be root,
eg.
ok set vfs.root.mountfrom="ufs:/dev/ad0s2a"
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