Changed Hard disk controller

From: Yngvi R. Gretarsson (yngvi_at_quixnet.net)
Date: 09/23/03

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    Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2003 12:54:32 -0400
    
    

    Hi

    I'm looking for some help regarding my 5.1 installation

    I have been playing with FreeBSD for some years now, with long pauses,
    and always come back to it, again and a again, following it's evolution the
    best I can,
    and also just to having fun with it and learn something new in the presses.
    I'm far from being a expert, and am lost half the time
    but still have fun with it.

    I finally decided that it was time to replace my old novel 3.12 with a 5.1
    FreeBSD

    The machine I'm using is an old mmx 233 with onboard ide and 65mb memory
    I had a 30gb Maxtor and a cd on it for the initial installation.
    Install went well, no problems.
    After moving the files form my very old novel server, over to the FreeBSD
    server, I decided I needed
    to add a 80gb disk.

    After installing the disk, the motherboard controller would not recognize
    the new disk.

    I next added a pci ida/ata controller from Maxtor, and disabled the onboard
    ida controller.
    With the old 30gb as master and the new 80gb as slave, and the CDROM as a
    master,
    I started the machine.

    The kernel found the new controller, but when init takes over, thinks
    started to fall apart fast.

    It seems that init is unable to deal with the controller change.

    After manually mounting the devices, I can get to the machine as single user
    with no write rights,

    I need to find out if, and how, I can chance the fstab's,
    and if there are any other config's that I have to worry about,
    in general, what do I, or can I do????

    or,

    Do I have to reinstall allover again?

    I still have the novel machine running on the network so all is not lost
    yet.

    Hope you have some ideas for my!!

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    Regards

    Yngvi Gretarsson yngvi@quixnet.net

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