On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 03:42:43PM -0400, PJ wrote: > Basically, the news is not good. > The directories & files are not what I had to begin with. > ls /dev/ad0s1 or any disk/slice merely gets: Permission denied.
Now that is certainly weird. :-) I've never come across something like that. What do 'mount' and 'ls -ld /dev' return? Maybe /dev is mounted with incorrect permissions. You are logged in as root, I presume? What strikes me as strange is that your data from the boot prompt suggest that your FreeBSD install is on ad3 instead of on ad0. You haven't messed with the cabling from the disks, or changed BIOS settings regarding the boot sequence, have you? Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725)
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