From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 18 1:51:29 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 151E937B401 for ; Sat, 18 Aug 2001 01:51:25 -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 f7H9ove28550; Fri, 17 Aug 2001 04:50:57 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from philip@p6m7g8.com) X-Authentication-Warning: p6m7g8.student.umd.edu: philip owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 04:50:57 -0500 (EST) From: "Philip M. Gollucci" X-X-Sender: To: Odhiambo Washington Cc: FreeBSD Questions List , Subject: Re: Disks moved around -- can't boot -- help!!! In-Reply-To: <20010818114716.D26582@ns2.wananchi.com> Message-ID: <20010817044931.X26498-100000@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 When you boot in single user mode, / gets mounted read only originally. when you type mount / assuming theres no problems, it remounts it in read-write mode. Generally this will fail if the file system is not clean. so fsck -p will mark it as clean and clean it. booting /kernel.GENERIC well thats a bit of stretch I don't know what I was thinking there. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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, Odhiambo Washington wrote: > * Philip M. Gollucci [20010818 11:35]: writing on the subject 'Re: Disks moved around -- can't boot -- help!!!' > | try in single usermode > | mount / > | if that fails > | fsck -p / > | then try again > | mount / > > > What is that for?? > > | > | IF all that fails... assuming you still have /kernel.GENERIC available to > | boot from, you might try that. > > > And what is this for? > > | > | When it says push enter to boot immediately, hit any other key. > | then type > | boot /kernel.GENERIC > | > | Hope that helps... > > > Doesn't help either... > > | > | > | 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. > > Yes.... change the entries from /dev/ad0 to /dev/ad1, save, mount both > disks and reboot. > > > -Wash > > -- > Odhiambo Washington > Wananchi Online Ltd., > wash@wananchi.com 1st Flr Loita Hse. > Tel: 254 2 313985 Loita Street., > Fax: 254 2 313922 PO Box 10286,00100-NAIROBI,KE. > > The effect of one upright individual is incalculable. > -Oscar Arias > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message