I'd just boot off of disc 1 of the install set. That way you have a known
(Bgood boot environment. Then you can back things up as per normal. You
(Bcan also get a little bit of a sense of what is where.
(B
(B
(BOn Mon, 23 May 2005, Joel wrote:
(B
(B> [...]
(B>> when i boot either ad6 or ad4 alone, everything is cool.
(B>>
(B>> when i plug both ad4 and ad6 into,
(B>
(B> Usually, when you set up for multi-boot, you plug all your drives in
(B> before you set up.
(B>
(B> At least, you do this until you understand what't going on.
(B>
(B> Now, if you understood what happens when the machine boots, you might be
(B> able to edit your fstab to get FreeBSD to boot. Or maybe not.
(B>
(B>> i am brought to the freebsd
(B>> bootloader. however, half-way down the boot i get:
(B>>
(B>> Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad6s1a
(B>> setrootbyname failed
(B>> ffs_mountroot: can't find rootvp
(B>> Root mount failed: 6
(B>>
(B>> when i switch ad6's cable over to ad4 and vice versa, my computer
(B>> doesn't boot past its bios at all. what's wrong here?
(B>
(B> Drive name changed at the low level, maybe?
(B>
(B> It happens.
(B>
(B>> i just need to
(B>> mount ad4 so i can back up some stuff, that's all. thank you so much!
(B>
(B>
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