Date: Sun, 24 Oct 1999 16:10:50 -0400 (EDT) From: "Joe \"Marcus\" Clarke" <marcus@miami.edu> To: Emmanuel Gravel <chemtechweb@psn.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Unable to boot after swapping HD's Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.4.10.9910241605310.15313-100000@jaguar.ir.miami.edu> In-Reply-To: <381364D4.B86E17E6@psn.net>
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If you now have FreeBSD on wd0 (which it sounds like you do), then boot off the install floppy, and select Configure. Then go to fdisk. Select the drive FreeBSD's / is on. Use 'S' to set that partition active. Then hit 'W'. FreeBSD will prompt you for a boot manager. If FreeBSD is the only OS on the machine, select standard. You should be set after that. FreeBSD should boot from wd0, and it should find /kernel and root just fine. The fixit floppy has undergone a bunch of changes since I first used it. You should be able to boot off the install floppy, then select the Fixit option. Then, select the Floppy option. It should mount the floppy, and give you some message about what's going on. You should have access to all the utils like ls, mount, umount, fsck, mv, cp, etc. It's just enough to get you going. In earlier releases of FreeBSD, I think the fixit floppy was bootable. I don't think this includes 2.2.8, though (but you could try). Joe Clarke On Sun, 24 Oct 1999, Emmanuel Gravel wrote: > 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 > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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