From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 25 22:37:23 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from tomts8-srv.bellnexxia.net (tomts8.bellnexxia.net [209.226.175.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA8C737B405 for ; Mon, 25 Jun 2001 22:37:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from david@skytrackercanada.com) Received: from d.tracker ([65.92.116.70]) by tomts8-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.4.01.03.16 201-229-121-116-20010115) with ESMTP id <20010626053718.TCFD3306.tomts8-srv.bellnexxia.net@d.tracker>; Tue, 26 Jun 2001 01:37:18 -0400 Received: (from david@localhost) by d.tracker (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f5Q6bFT78498; Tue, 26 Jun 2001 06:37:15 GMT (envelope-from david) Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 01:37:14 -0500 From: David Banning To: Gene Harris Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mount: /dev/wd0s1a on /: Device does not match mounted device Message-ID: <20010626013714.A78431@sympatico.ca> References: <002201c0fdd9$a11df700$6401a8c0@development> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <002201c0fdd9$a11df700$6401a8c0@development>; from geneh51@swbell.net on Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 07:47:51PM -0500 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 I had a similar problem. Somewhere around version 4.0 wd changed to ad. What I did was boot from the cdrom, go into fixit mode, then mounted the drive and changed the /etc/fstab file. Now that I am running 4.3S I find that as long as the drivers are in /dev my fstab file can be setup with wd _or_ ad. On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 07:47:51PM -0500, Gene Harris wrote: > After CVSUP'ing last night (I track 4.x-STABLE), I am unable to boot today > use to the error message: > mount: /dev/wd0s1a on /: Device does not match mounted device. The mount > command shows ad0s1a on / (ufs, local, read-only). > > It looks like my device 'wd' has gone away. It is still in my /dev/ > directory, but it seems the system wants to mount my root as ad0s1a, which > does not exist in my /dev/ directory. I am unable to mount my root > partition in read write mode so that I can correct the problem. > > I tried booting to kernel.old, but that does not work either; I get the same > error message, which makes me wonder if I need to load a module from the > modules.old directory. Any help or references on what to read would be > greatly appreciated. I think I need to do a /dev/MAKEDEV all and I need to > edit my /etc/fstab file to change 'wd' entries to 'ad' entries. However, > since my file system is mounted read only, I am stuck. > > Thanks in advance for any help. My apologies if this message is in html, my > windows box with Outlook express is all that I have for internet access at > the moment. > > Gene > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Think big. Pollute the Mississippi. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message