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Date:      Wed, 30 Jul 2014 01:23:03 +0200
From:      Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl>
To:        Brian Wood <woodbrian77@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Problem booting
Message-ID:  <20140729232303.GA86963@slackbox.erewhon.home>
In-Reply-To: <CABWFOjtWPApmQ8CgxWKpjYMPzrngb5-nzOF600VLO-yCAv77qg@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <20140728201316.GA75558@slackbox.erewhon.home> <CABWFOju0vEgE6A2%2BKU2Dq5coK=K84fU1T78fS_C7jA0mi9oMGw@mail.gmail.com> <20140728232101.GA1425@slackbox.erewhon.home> <CABWFOjtqiVdGJssoC2jHnybKTmgLFmLqw2EEDKztR7=Sm7QVAg@mail.gmail.com> <20140729070805.GA2594@slackbox.erewhon.home> <CABWFOjutOvqXvWhuwNQk08Cf7NSW6u-55L0_nhP4kvt4EKgwdg@mail.gmail.com> <20140729185337.GA5146@slackbox.erewhon.home> <CABWFOjvaBm-xMj5bEc3k=yZ=g69NDnoyDvPOZy-WFhBZoyuTog@mail.gmail.com> <20140729204442.GA9077@slackbox.erewhon.home> <CABWFOjtWPApmQ8CgxWKpjYMPzrngb5-nzOF600VLO-yCAv77qg@mail.gmail.com>

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On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 04:19:51PM -0500, Brian Wood wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 3:44 PM, Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> wrote:
>=20
> >
> > Looks like devfs is configured to not show the partitions. Damn.  Try
> > running
> > `devfs 'rule add path * unhide'` as root to make all possible device no=
des
> > show up. Then look again for partitions on ada; `ls /dev/ada*`
> >
> >
> I didn't use any ticks or quotes in the following
>=20
> pcbsd# devfs rule add path * unhide
> devfs rule: unknown argument: ad4
>=20
> pcbsd# devfs rule add path ada* unhide
> devfs rule: ioctl DEVFSIO_RADD: Input/output error
>=20
> Should I use some ticks or quotes?

Yes, like this:

    devfs rule add path '*' unhide

Otherwise the * will be expanded by the shell.

> Nothing new under dev yet.
>=20
> > What output does `gpart show` produce? It should give you all the
> > partitions
> > on all available drives.
> >
> >
> It lists cd0 and iso9660

Weird. Maybe there is something in the way PCBSD is set up, I don't know. I=
've
never used it.

Is there anything in the PCBSD boot CD/image that you can use to mount the
harddisks in the computer?

Or could you try booting from a original FreeBSD live CD/memstick?

Otherwise you might have to wait for someone knowledgable in PCBSD to weigh
in.

Roland
--=20
R.F.Smith                                   http://rsmith.home.xs4all.nl/
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