Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2001 17:40:03 -0500 From: jacks@sage-american.com To: Joshua Holland <josh@bitstream.net>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mount root fail Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.20011022174003.00f12f38@mail.sage-american.com> In-Reply-To: <p05001908b7fa4d0de8ff@[10.0.1.100]>
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Still sounds like a BIOS problem.... the HD is not configured correcttly. At 05:24 PM 10.22.2001 -0500, Joshua Holland wrote: >I'm setting up a FreeBSD box that someone else started. It booted >fine, mounting the first disk, root partition as ad1s1a. However I >couldn't get the second disk to show up. So I gave it to another >friend who knows more about pc BIOS's and he just pulled some >connectors and put them back and got both disks to be recognized, and >now the root disk won't mount. I was able to figure out that the >first disk is now being recognized as ad6. I can only mount it as >read only now (ufs:ad6s1a), and I can't run fsck, which is still >looking for ad4. I can't change fstab since it's ro. Also, ad6 is >not in /dev (nor the second disk, which is ad10). What's going on? >Why did ad4 become ad6? Is there a way to get it back to ad4? > >Thanks, > >Josh. > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > Best regards, Jack L. Stone, Server Admin Sage-American http://www.sage-american.com jacks@sage-american.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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