From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 10 9:13: 7 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fac13.ds.psu.edu (fac13.ds.psu.edu [146.186.61.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB7E137B406 for ; Tue, 10 Jul 2001 09:13:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hawk@fac13.ds.psu.edu) Received: from fac13.ds.psu.edu (localhost.ds.psu.edu [127.0.0.1]) by fac13.ds.psu.edu (8.11.4/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f6AFxQx02987; Tue, 10 Jul 2001 11:59:26 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from hawk@fac13.ds.psu.edu) Message-Id: <200107101559.f6AFxQx02987@fac13.ds.psu.edu> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.3.1 01/18/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: "Marc Dodsworth" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: using fixit floppy/CD-ROM In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 04 Jul 2001 10:21:03 +0930." <001001c10423$690f2050$0210a8c0@dodsworth.com.au> From: dochawk@psu.edu Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 11:59:26 -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Marc muumbled, > Playing around with Windows 2000, I seem to have somehow changed my slice > numbers and as a result FreeBSD no longer finds things where they should be. > da0s2a is now da03a and so fourth (my Windows 2000 partition when from being > slice 0 to slice 4) > What's the best way to get in and edit my /etc/fstab file? My system is > running 4.3 but my CD-ROMs are the 4.0 distribution. > I boot usnig the live filesystem CD and use the fixit CD option I can't > mount my drive - there are only slice entries in /dev but not for partitions > and there is no makedev to create it. I haven't seen an answer here, so I'll swing away. can you boot at all? I managed to bumble my way to single user after drdos trashed my partition table and win98 overwrite the beginning of a partition. vi is on /usr, so I had to use ed. Seriously. Try using fdisk and disklabel from within setup to put the slices where they belong. You can delete one partition within the slices at a time to force the right letters back onto them. hawk -- Prof. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. /"\ ASCII ribbon campaign dochawk@psu.edu Smeal 178 (814) 375-4700 \ / against HTML mail These opinions will not be those of X and postings Penn State until it pays my retainer. / \ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message