Try this. Get to the shell prompt and run: ed /etc/fstab 1,$s/ad0/da0/ w q
Then reboot the system. On Wednesday 25 August 2004 12:53 pm, DA Forsyth wrote: > Hiya all > > I'm searching the web for answers on this too, but so far nothing > useful. hard to know what question to ask the search engines! > > anyhow, the situation: > I installed 5.2.1-R some time back as a start to making a new server. > I used a 40 and an 80 Gb IDE drive plugged into the motherboard > Now I've got an Adaptec 2400a IDE RAID card and have installed it. > I created to raid 1 packs (2x40 and 2x80) and behold it starts to > boot, finds all the drives etc, no problems, > but then > it cannot find root as root WAS on /dev/ad0s1a > and is now on /dev/da0s1a > I get a > mountroot> > prompt and I type > ufs:/dev/da0s1a > and it starts to boot but obviously gets a lot of errors because > /etc/fstab contains the old drives names. > > I eventually get a shell but cannot now edit fstab because only root > has mounted and all the editors are 'somewhere unmounted' > > now I'm lost. how to do edit fstab to get it to mount the > partitions? doubly lost because I know I can mount them manually but > don't know the parameters for 'mount' and , yes, 'man' won't work > either. yes, I'm still new at this BSD thing.... please help anyway. > > > -- > DA Fo rsyth Network Supervisor > Principal Technical Officer -- Institute for Water Research > http://www.ru.ac.za/institutes/iwr/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"