Date: Mon, 28 May 2007 18:05:15 +0200 From: WarrenHead <warrenhead@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: machine will no longer boot Message-ID: <465AFDBB.8050304@gmail.com>
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Hi list, Yesterday I installed a new sata disk into my server, which is connected to a highpoint rocket raid card. I plugged in only one disk, so no raid yet. I ran sysinstall and then fdisk and disklabel. All was fine and I placed files onto the disk. Then I realized I had made a mistake, I had made only one partition with fdisk, and two slices with disklabel. (Mountpoints pointing to /mnt/x and /mnt/y.) Somehow I got another mountpoint automatically which mounted the entire disk as one, to /media/z. Weird. So I ran sysinstall again and used fdisk to erase everything and create two partitions. I wrote these changes successfully to the disk. I then started disklabel (still from within sysinstall) and created the two mount points for the two partitions again. I tried to write these changes to the disk, but that failed. Mmm, weird. So, perhaps I needed to reboot first? Which I did, and now I cannot boot anymore. The error messages that show on screen are something like this: Can't stat /dev/ad4sd1 No such file or directory Can't stat /dev/ad4se1 No such file or directory After that I get a bogus shell which can do virtually nothing. I have no idea what it is. I can cat /etc/fstab though and noticed that the two lines with mountpoints for the new disk are indeed the new lines. I guess disklabel was partially succesfull? Perhaps I should simply remove these lines in /etc/fstab? Unfortunately, with this ridiculous shell, I don't know how to. So I tried a livecd (Knoppix 5.1). Since the system disk was formatted as ufstype=5xbsd, I have trouble writing to it. Bummer. But... should I remove these lines in /etc/fstab? Will this matter? Luckily I can read the disk, so if necessary I can start over, but I hope there is something I can do from within that odd shell. Please advise, this particular problem is not fun. Cheers, Warren
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