Please help me booooot!

[Tony Shadwick]

I'd just boot off of disc 1 of the install set.  That way you have a known 
good boot environment.  Then you can back things up as per normal.  You 
can also get a little bit of a sense of what is where.


On Mon, 23 May 2005, Joel wrote:

> [...]
>> when i boot either ad6 or ad4 alone, everything is cool.
>>
>> when i plug both ad4 and ad6 into,
>
> Usually, when you set up for multi-boot, you plug all your drives in
> before you set up.
>
> At least, you do this until you understand what't going on.
>
> Now, if you understood what happens when the machine boots, you might be
> able to edit your fstab to get FreeBSD to boot. Or maybe not.
>
>> i am brought to the freebsd
>> bootloader. however, half-way down the boot i get:
>>
>> Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad6s1a
>> setrootbyname failed
>> ffs_mountroot: can't find rootvp
>> Root mount failed: 6
>>
>> when i switch ad6's cable over to ad4 and vice versa, my computer
>> doesn't boot past its bios at all. what's wrong here?
>
> Drive name changed at the low level, maybe?
>
> It happens.
>
>> i just need to
>> mount ad4 so i can back up some stuff, that's all. thank you so much!
>
>
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