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To: David Nicholas Kayal <davek@saturn5.com>
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Subject: Re: mount problems.
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On Mon, 23 Dec 2002, David Nicholas Kayal wrote:
> Subject: Re: mount problems.
> 
> Is there an http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-replys.html?
> 
> Here is a copy of my fstab file:
> 
> > more fstab
> # See the fstab(5) manual page for important information on automatic mounts
> # of network filesystems before modifying this file.
> #
> # Device                Mountpoint      FStype  Options         Dump
> Pass#
> /dev/ad0s1b             none            swap    sw              0       0
> /dev/ad0s1a             /               ufs     rw              1       1
> proc                    /proc           procfs  rw              0       0
> >
> 
> The system will boot up once I type in the following at the mountroot
> prompt.
> 
> ufs:/dev/ad0s1a
> 
<snip>

Did you build this drive in another box and then swap it over to the box 
it's in now? Sounds like the bootloader doesn't know where your drive is 
(which is common if you swap in a root drive). Assuming you're using 
the standard FreeBSD bootloader, have you tried re-initializing the MBR 
with fdisk? Can't remember the switch, see the fdisk man page.

Just a thought - this has happened to me when moving hard drives around.

JB

#  John Bleichert 
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