Re: About my problem

From: Teilhard Knight (teilhk_at_Phreaker.net)
Date: 05/17/03

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    To: FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
    Date: 17 May 2003 06:33:46 -0500
    
    

    On Wed, 2003-05-14 at 13:15, Matthew Seaman wrote:
    > On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 11:05:50AM -0500, Teilhard Knight wrote:
    >
    >
    > > Thank you, Matthew. I tried as you said, but I couldn't pass the first
    > > step. I got the message: "cannot boot /kernel, kernel module already
    > > loaded" Of course I tried "kernel" and other variants. If I typed
    > > "unload" and then what you said, I ended up with the prompt for the
    > > manual file system feed.
    >
    > Oops. Yes. Sorry. By the time you get to the loader prompt, the
    > kernel has already been loaded. You can just type:
    >
    > boot -s
    >
    > at that point. Doing the unload then the full boot path thing is a
    > long winded way of achieving the same effect.
    >
    > > But I could boot with a kernel back up I had
    > > and I made the modifications to the fstab file with a regular editor. My
    > > doubt was that the slices still were called ads2s2a, etc., but I
    > > supposed that that could change with the changes in the fstab file. I
    > > knew that if something went wrong, I could not boot anymore from my back
    > > up kernel, but I would get to the same request for a hand-input
    > > filesystem and I would only had to specify ad2s2a. Well, nothing worked.
    > > I cannot boot now. It seems to me that the utility to specify by hand
    > > the filesystem either doesn't work or that I have a deeper problem here.
    > > I am now tempted to get done with 4.8 and try 5.0. What do you think?
    >
    > Hmmm... Clarify for me: which disk is it exactly that your FreeBSD
    > installation is on? ie. what does 'lsdev' return at the boot loader
    > prompt? If you're using a GENERIC kernel, or your kernel config contains
    >
    > options ATA_STATIC_ID
    >
    > then the disks are numbered like this:
    >
    > ad0 Master on the 1st IDE bus
    > ad1 Slave on the 1st IDE bus
    >
    > ad2 Master on the 2nd IDE bus
    > ad3 Slave on the 2nd IDE bus
    >
    > If you haven't got that option in your kernel, then the disks present
    > in your system just get numbered in order.

    You confirm what I figured out was the cause of it all after getting rid
    of 4.8 and going into 5.0. I removed that option, I remember. I now have
    another problem with 5.0. If I cannot solve it, I can always go back to
    4.8, where I know now at least I won't get into the same problem again.
    I am a very impatient bloke, if I had just waited for your feedback ....

    Teilhard Knight
    The Extraterrestrial

    Who ate my sandwich?

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