fubar'ed it good this time...

[Kurt Buff]

On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 03:03, Damien Fleuriot <ml at my.gd> wrote:
> On 6/27/11 8:17 AM, Kurt Buff wrote:
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>> I've even downloaded and burned the 8.2 live boot iso, but it says it
>> can't find a hard drive from sysinstall - both the Fdisk and Label
>> options say
>>      "No disks found! Please verify that your disk controller
>>      is being properly probed at boot time. See the Hardware
>>      guide on the Documentation menu for clues on
>>      diagnosing this type of problem."
>>
>> I get no love from the Fixit shell, either, with /dev being void of
>> any reference to the hard drive - just acd0.
>>
>> I'm pretty sure that if I can mount the disk that I can just edit the
>> cruft out of /etc/fstab, and it will all be fine, but I can't get
>> there...
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>
>
> You'll want to download a live CD with UFS support :)
>
> MFSBSD comes to mind:
>
> http://mfsbsd.vx.sk/

Your advice sounds reasonable, but that site seems devoted to zfs bootables.

I wonder if an 8.1 livefs iso will do the trick...

Kurt