From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 10 6:44:51 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cx952600-a.fed1.sdca.home.com (cx952600-a.fed1.sdca.home.com [24.4.90.90]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DFCA137B519 for ; Mon, 10 Apr 2000 06:44:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from snoonan@cx952600-a.fed1.sdca.home.com) Received: from localhost (snoonan@localhost) by cx952600-a.fed1.sdca.home.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id GAA79769; Mon, 10 Apr 2000 06:44:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from snoonan@cx952600-a.fed1.sdca.home.com) Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2000 06:44:23 -0700 (PDT) From: Sean Noonan To: Michael Joyner , questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can't boot In-Reply-To: <38EFD080.937B11E9@rv1.dynip.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG With the fixit floppy I was able to mount "/" as mytemp. I was then able to cd/mytemp/etc and edit fstab. I changed all wd* entries to ad* entries. When I reboot I still get: Mounting root from ufs:wd0s1a wd0: bad sector table not supported wd0s1: bad sector table not supported Root mount failed: 22 Mounting root from ufs:wd0a wd0: bad sector table not supported wd0s1: bad sector table not supported Root mount failed: 22 What am I missing??? Also, even though I was able to mount "/" and cd to /usr, doing a 'ls' at /mytemp/usr shows no files or directories... -Sean. On Sat, 8 Apr 2000, Michael Joyner wrote: > Try booting with a fixit floppy and see if you can mount the partitions, > then edit your fstab file. > > > Sean Noonan wrote: > > > > > I botched my upgrade to 4.0-STABLE by not changing 'wd' entries to 'ad' > > entries in /etc/fstab. Now I can't seem to recover. > > > > If I boot into single-user mode with either kernel or kernel.GENERIC, I > > can't get past the "wd0: bad sector table not supported" error. It > > wants me to enter something similar to "ufs:/dev/wd0s1a". I've tried > > that, and variations like "ufs:/dev/ad0s1a". No matter what I do it > > rejects what I type. (I've even tried setting rootdev=/dev/ad0s1a, as > > suggested by Mark Ovens in response to my earlier cry for help--thanks > > Mark). > > > > If I boot into single-user mode with kernel.old, I can get past booting > > (well sorta). It mounts /, and only /, as read-only. I can't seem > > to remount it read/write. The mount command simply refuses and spits back > > "Block device required". > > > > Please help me, I'm desperate. I'll do anything to avoid the standard M$ > > answer of "reinstall from the ground up". > > > > TIA, > > > > -Sean Noonan > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > -- > --- > Michael Joyner > Systems Administrator > mjoyner@rv1.dynip.com > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message