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From: Jim <dillweed58@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Manual mount root for ATA100
To: Ceri <setantae@submonkey.net>
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You are right.  I don't see any of those devices in
/dev.  How do I MAKE them?

Jim

--- Ceri <setantae@submonkey.net> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 09:02:09PM -0600,
> Christopher Farley wrote:
> > Jim (dillweed58@yahoo.com) wrote:
> > 
> > > ad4: 29311MB <maxtor XXXXX> [59554/16/63] at
> > > ata2-master UDMA100
> > > ad5: 29311MB <maxtor XXXXX> [59554/16/63] at
> > > ata2-slave UDMA100
> > > acd0: CDROM <FX4820T> at ata1-slave using PIO4
> > > Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad0s1a
> > > Root mount failed: 6
> > 
> > It looks to me like you are trying to mount root
> from /dev/ad0s1a,
> > but your disk is coming up as ad4. Try changing
> all your /dev/ad0xxx
> > entries in /etc/fstab to /dev/ad4xxx.
> 
> And good luck doing that, because even if you do get
> it to boot into single
> user (which you can do by typing ufs:/dev/ad4s1a at
> that mountroot> prompt),
> you'll probably find that you don't have the entries
> in /dev for ad4, and you
> won't be able to make them because / is mounted
> read-only and you won't be
> able to mount it read-write because you don't have
> the entries for ad4 in /dev.
> 
> I used sysinstall to fix this when I had that
> problem, but it would have been
> easier to swap the drive back onto the old IDE
> controller and make the devices
> first.
> 
> Ceri
> 
> -- 
> keep a mild groove on


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