From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 15 15:43:41 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3ABFA106564A for ; Thu, 15 Mar 2012 15:43:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from davidianwalker@gmail.com) Received: from mail-iy0-f182.google.com (mail-iy0-f182.google.com [209.85.210.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 023918FC08 for ; Thu, 15 Mar 2012 15:43:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: by iahk25 with SMTP id k25so5435205iah.13 for ; Thu, 15 Mar 2012 08:43:40 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=cCBp2kh7QTX8zENjuXcxGoVtlJs4DJH8DW1bPPteprU=; b=DygbyMHOELggPoUKHYTUbokhASPQthSeGy1dEuHM3LTyLnPAwJuq2l2O+c2o2OGgZd hbj2s9uRD4jy819ytxnqxNhKgLPuSPainhrrKO8zu22IX1qKO83nUe7X9834jiC3g0l1 +zlolM4XIQyS8HfR69mKzwleGCI+rUqejWRvndhZUl1L5IzCtoFqVsb7W/an+Nuuo1ZH ReDuWTKuObpi6NKTWnNE9cYpttRL+rt6FuVSR64MXNZnX0j6tSEs3yVZNDDZzpkJbkLu JOtqFHp4uQTOauRnceBMQxvC87ZWLtZ9szxK/47rLiC1xen/lfp1bVxZw6akchQzC6no GKtg== MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.50.57.129 with SMTP id i1mr10093479igq.33.1331826220437; Thu, 15 Mar 2012 08:43:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.42.96.6 with HTTP; Thu, 15 Mar 2012 08:43:40 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2012 02:13:40 +1030 Message-ID: From: David Walker To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Subject: Re: Moved drives ... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 15:43:41 -0000 Hey. On 15/03/2012, illoai@gmail.com wrote: > > Yes, you can change the fstab (if you can get in via mountroot: > at the boot prompt, I believe) from single user mode. I've read boot(8) to some degree and tried interrupting boot and so on. At some point I get a ... mountroot> ... prompt which I guess is what you refer to. I'm not sure how to influence this - there seems to be no keyboard control at any rate ... I've decided to re-install FreeBSD rather than try to learn about this - lazy. During install, although FreeBSD correctly recognizes all the drives and allows me to select one as a target and "use whole", when it gets to slicing up the drive and presents the list of all drives, it incorrectly shows the first drive (the Windows drive) as having UFS partitions and so on - that drive is a single NTFS slice ... Needless to say there's no way I'm proceeding with install. So I leave the cabling order (which is what I originally changed prompting me to email the list) but unplug the Windows drive and install FreeBSD. Reboot and ... same situation. Sort of expected. Presumably, this is an understood situation with a simple workaround (failed drives etcetera). Please let me know (man pages accompanied by cluesticks are fine - I'm new here). > If you'd've > used labels (either glabel or tunefs -L) you'd not have to change > your /etc/fstab at all. I'd have no problem with that ... except it's not given as an option during install as far as I can see. > > -- > -- > Best wishes.