From owner-freebsd-hardware Sat Aug 25 18:23: 4 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mass.dis.org (mass.dis.org [216.240.45.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B6F637B411 for ; Sat, 25 Aug 2001 18:22:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.dis.org) Received: from mass.dis.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.dis.org (8.11.4/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f7Q1Rsn22431; Sat, 25 Aug 2001 18:27:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.dis.org) Message-Id: <200108260127.f7Q1Rsn22431@mass.dis.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: "Aaron" Cc: "Tim" , freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 3ware Escalade 6200 RAID Controller In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 23 Aug 2001 16:14:42 PDT." <20010823231651.B00C137B405@hub.freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2001 18:27:54 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > 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" -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] V I C T O R Y N O T V E N G E A N C E To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message