From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 24 12:55:57 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from saturn.psn.net (saturn.psn.net [207.211.58.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 043FB14BD7 for ; Sun, 24 Oct 1999 12:55:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chemtechweb@psn.net) Received: from psn.net (2-426.phx.psn.net [205.164.63.126]) by saturn.psn.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA15367 for ; Sun, 24 Oct 1999 12:57:45 -0700 (MST) Message-ID: <381364D4.B86E17E6@psn.net> Date: Sun, 24 Oct 1999 12:58:12 -0700 From: Emmanuel Gravel X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Unable to boot after swapping HD's Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I've recently been doing quite a bit of reconfiguration with my systems. I had FreeBSD installed on one of them as standalone (i.e. only OS) for a while, booting 2.2.7 off of wd0s1 (or 1:wd(0,a)kernel) properly for a while. I then placed the HD in wd2 for a while (took me a while to figure out how to get it to dual boot properly but got it to work) but then again I had access to the 2.2.7 CD's at the time. Now all I have is a 2.2.8 boot and 2.2.8 fixit at hand to repair it. I replaced FreeBSD as a standalone on the system, in wd0. The boot floppy properly recognizes the HD during the boot sequence. The HD gives me the boot prompt when I boot without the floppy. Problems: 1- Booting off the HD gives me a bad disklabel error (probably normal since I relabeled it as booting off wd2 last time). 2- Booting with the floppy gives me all the necessary install options. However, I'd never used the fixit floppy before and there is little info on how to use it. I start the holographic shell (still can't figure out what commands are available to me at that point since nothing I've tried seems to work, like ls and mount). I then start up the fixit floppy. Kind of counter- intuitive (and F1 info doesn't really help here) since I initially expected that chosing 2 would bring me directly to the necessary prompt but you still need to start the shell first (keep getting the message I should enter a writable fixit floppy). However it does mount it to /mnt2 on the shell. Still can't see anything. No commands seem present on the floppy. Can't figure out what's on it. Questions: 1- Is there a quick and dirty way to get FreeBSD to recognize the wd0 HD as its boot drive and stop giving me a bad disklabel error? 2- What is available on both the emergency holographic shell and the fixit floppy, considering I've never used either in the past? I've already searched the handbook/web pages and the mailing list archives and found nothing that seemed related to this. Please reply all. Thanks in advance, Emmanuel To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message