need help repairing this system... mount issues

[Joshua Oreman]

On Mon, May 19, 2003 at 11:20:36AM +1000 or thereabouts, Andy Farkas seemed to write:
> > >
> > > boot -s
> >
> > after this i need to tell it where to find the filesystem
> > so, like in the previous messages,
> >
> > mountroot> ufs:/dev/ad4s1a
> >
> > > fsck -p
> >
> > when i try this, i get the following:
> >
> > Can't open /dev/ad0s1a: Device not configured
> > /dev/ad0s1a: CAN'T CHECK FILE SYSTEM.
> > /dev/ad0s1a: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY.
> >
> > in past i've tried to run fsck on ad4s1a, but it gave the error:
> >
> > Can't stat /dev/ad4s1a: No such file of directory
> >
> 
> Mmmm. I think you've got two options: either move the disk onto the
> motherboard controller so it becomes ad0 again (or stick it in another
> machine) or boot the install disk (either floppy or cd) and go into the
> Fixit shell to create an ad4 device node (this can be fairly complicated
> to do...)

Before you do that, why not try this?
Booting [kernel] in 9 seconds... [space]
ok boot -s
[snip]
mountroot> ufs:/dev/ad4s1a
[snip]
# mount -uw /
# cd /dev && sh MAKEDEV ad4
# mount -a

The key command is 'mount -uw /'. This tells the system to remount /
read-write. It does not need the device file used to mount the
partition.

HTH,
-- Josh

> 
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> 
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> 
>         Andy Farkas
>     System Administrator
>    Speednet Communications
>  http://www.speednet.com.au/
> 
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