From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 18 1:35:49 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from p6m7g8.student.umd.edu (p6m7g8.student.umd.edu [129.2.247.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9787937B40B for ; Sat, 18 Aug 2001 01:35:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from philip@p6m7g8.com) Received: from localhost (philip@localhost) by p6m7g8.student.umd.edu (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f7H9ZMf27771; Fri, 17 Aug 2001 04:35:22 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from philip@p6m7g8.com) X-Authentication-Warning: p6m7g8.student.umd.edu: philip owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 04:35:22 -0500 (EST) From: "Philip M. Gollucci" X-X-Sender: To: Milo Hyson Cc: FreeBSD Questions List Subject: Re: Disks moved around -- can't boot -- help!!! In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20010817043251.A26498-100000@p6m7g8.student.umd.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG try in single usermode mount / if that fails fsck -p / then try again mount / IF all that fails... assuming you still have /kernel.GENERIC available to boot from, you might try that. When it says push enter to boot immediately, hit any other key. then type boot /kernel.GENERIC Hope that helps... If all this fails, temporarily take the other drive out, put the FreeBSD back where it was, boot up.... edit/save the /etc/fstab file, then put both drives back in and you might get lucky. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Philip M. Gollucci (p6m7g8) philip@p6m7g8.com 301.314.3445 Science, Discovery, & the Universe Webmaster URL: http://www.sdu.umd.edu DEVEL: http://www.test1.p6m7g8.com DEVEL: http://www.test3.p6m7g8.com EJPress.com Database/PERL Programmer & System Admin URL : http://www.ejournalpress.com Resume : http://www.p6m7g8.com/resume-20010424-170825.txt On Sat, 18 Aug 2001, Milo Hyson wrote: > I hope this is an easy one for somebody out there. > > I had a single drive IDE system and recently added another so that I could > dual boot. However, due to requirements in a certain "other OS" the new > drive had to be the primary master. Thus when FreeBSD boots up now, it > freaks out because its partitions are not where they're supposed to be > (ad0s1 is now ad1s1, etc.) . Fortunately, it's able to locate the root > partition and go into single user mode. However, I can't update my > /etc/fstab because it won't let me re-mount root in read-write mode. > > Anybody have any suggestions? > > - Milo Hyson > CyberLife Labs, LLC > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message