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Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2001 17:40:03 -0500
To: Joshua Holland <josh@bitstream.net>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
From: jacks@sage-american.com
Subject: Re: mount root fail
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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.
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Jack L. Stone,
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