Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 05:34:14 -0400 (EDT) From: "Daniel Mahoney, Systems Admin" <danm@firestorm2000.com> To: Siegbert Baude <Siegbert.Baude@gmx.de> Cc: Al Goldstein <al@sense-gold-134.oz.net>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: adding harddisk Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10006200531110.3368-100000@freebsd1.firestorm2000.com> In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20000620111323.00a922d0@imap.rz.uni-ulm.de>
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On Tue, 20 Jun 2000, Siegbert Baude wrote: > Hi Al, >=20 > >I forgot to mention, Siegbert, that if I try booting these disks from id= e-2, > >which my bios allows, the boot will start out but ultimately fails, beca= use > >the root partition won't mount. Maybe the OS would have to be fooled wit= h > >phoney disk number.............Al, >=20 > That=B4s because your disk partition, where FBSD is expected to boot from= ,=20 > has changed from ad0s?? to ad1s??. You should be able to manually change= =20 > this, when your boot process stops. > Anyone out there, who knows the place this is hard coded, to change it=20 > permanently? Hope you know how to use vi. /etc/fstab. You're gonna want to boot into the installer, and use a fixit floppy, mount your root partition from there, and edit the fstab file. Don't remember exactly how I did this when I did it, but that was the basic procedure in my case. >=20 > Ciao > Siegbert >=20 >=20 >=20 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message >=20 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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