About my problem

[Matthew Seaman]

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.

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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