Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2001 12:55:44 +0100 From: Axel Scheepers <axel@axel.truedestiny.net> To: "William S." <wilby98@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: boot hangs at "mounting root from UFS:" Message-ID: <20011117125544.A7072@mars.thuis> In-Reply-To: <20011117113256.2922.qmail@web13308.mail.yahoo.com>; from wilby98@yahoo.com on Sat, Nov 17, 2001 at 03:32:56AM -0800 References: <20011117113256.2922.qmail@web13308.mail.yahoo.com>
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On Sat, Nov 17, 2001 at 03:32:56AM -0800, William S. wrote:
> My PC hangs and stops at:
>
> "mounting root from UFS:/dev/ad0s4a"
>
> I am running FreeBSD4.4.
> Recently I installed another OS and that process
> rearraged my slices. So FreeBSD now resides at
> ad0s4 instead of ad0s3.
>
> To accomodate this change, I used the fixit.flp
> to edit '/etc/fstab' and added the appropriate
> devices (ad0s4a, ad0s4b,etc...) to /dev using
> MAKEDEV.
> I used 'disklabel -e /dev/ad0s4' and everything
> looked OK and did a 'disklabel -B /dev/ad0s4'.
And how about your /etc/fstab ?
You need to put the right root partition in there too, my guess is that that one
still points to the old one.
>
>
> I am able to manually mount the partitions
> (ad0s4a,ad0s4f) so I know they are still
> there.
>
> What do I need to do now?
Boot from the fixit floppy and edit /etc/fstab.
>
> Note: Please "CC:" a copy of your reply to
> me at wilby98@yahoo.com .
>
> Thank you,
You're welcome :)
--
Axel Scheepers
UNIX System Administrator
email: axel@axel.truedestiny.net
ascheepers@vianetworks.nl
http://axel.truedestiny.net/~axel
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