Date: Mon, 3 Nov 1997 08:29:33 -0700 (MST) From: Gerard Giamberdine <gerard@dimensional.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Boot manager and switching hard drives (part 2) Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.971103081840.29744B-100000@flatland.dimensional.com>
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>> >> I've recently changed my hard drives around and am having difficulty >> getting FreeBSD going again. Old setup: >> Primary master 1G: Freebsd >> Primary slave 420M: Win3.1 >> New setup: >> PM 4G: Win95 >> Secondary master 1G: Freebsd (unchanged) >> Secondary slave 420M: Future Freebsd partition >> >> How do I create a new boot manager on the 4G, change the one on the 1G, >> and then get it to find Freebsd's new location from then on? I've tried >> various things with the boot and fixit floppies without success. >> Fbsdboot'ing from the 4G results in a can't find root:panic. Thanks >> for your help! > Enter > 1:wd(2,a)kernel > at the boot: prompt. The "wd(2,a)" tells the kernel, which device to > mount as root device. To avoid entering the bootstring each time, you > might want to use nextboot(8). > Wolfgang Ok. It finds the root and enters the emergency shell. However I'm unable to edit any files or remake the devices (message- Read only file system) - like I don't actually have root permissions. Also, vi complains 'unknown terminal type' and won't start - is this the TERM variable (and what should it be set to)?. Thanks again for your help! Gerard Giamberdine gerard@dimensional.com
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