Re: Moved drives ...

2012-03-15 Thread Arthur Chance
On 03/15/12 01:11, ill...@gmail.com wrote: On 14 March 2012 17:39, David Walkerdavidianwal...@gmail.com wrote: Hey. I had installed 9.0 to a SATA drive (ada1 I think) and went to install Windows on a higher numbered drive but Windows doesn't like that or so I gathered. Anyway, I moved drives

Re: Moved drives ...

2012-03-15 Thread Robert Huff
Arthur Chance writes: I'll second that remark on labelling filesystems. My life has become much easier since I did all mine - the 8.2-9.0 disk naming switch from /dev/adi to /dev/adaj had absolutely no effect. Take a look at Warren Block's excellent page on the subject:

Re: Moved drives ...

2012-03-15 Thread Warren Block
On Thu, 15 Mar 2012, Robert Huff wrote: Arthur Chance writes: I'll second that remark on labelling filesystems. My life has become much easier since I did all mine - the 8.2-9.0 disk naming switch from /dev/adi to /dev/adaj had absolutely no effect. Take a look at Warren Block's

Re: Moved drives ...

2012-03-15 Thread David Walker
Hey. On 15/03/2012, ill...@gmail.com ill...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, you can change the fstab (if you can get in via mountroot: at the boot prompt, I believe) from single user mode. I've read boot(8) to some degree and tried interrupting boot and so on. At some point I get a ... mountroot ...

Re: Moved drives ...

2012-03-15 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 16 Mar 2012 02:13:40 +1030, David Walker wrote: I've read boot(8) to some degree and tried interrupting boot and so on. At some point I get a ... mountroot ... prompt which I guess is what you refer to. I'm not sure how to influence this - there seems to be no keyboard control at any

Re: Moved drives ...

2012-03-15 Thread Arthur Chance
On 03/15/12 15:25, Warren Block wrote: On Thu, 15 Mar 2012, Robert Huff wrote: Arthur Chance writes: I'll second that remark on labelling filesystems. My life has become much easier since I did all mine - the 8.2-9.0 disk naming switch from /dev/adi to /dev/adaj had absolutely no effect.

Moved drives ...

2012-03-14 Thread David Walker
Hey. I had installed 9.0 to a SATA drive (ada1 I think) and went to install Windows on a higher numbered drive but Windows doesn't like that or so I gathered. Anyway, I moved drives around and installed Windows - FreeBSD is now ada2 I think. I'm used to OpenBSD where fixing this is a vi fstab

Re: Moved drives ...

2012-03-14 Thread ill...@gmail.com
On 14 March 2012 17:39, David Walker davidianwal...@gmail.com wrote: Hey. I had installed 9.0 to a SATA drive (ada1 I think) and went to install Windows on a higher numbered drive but Windows doesn't like that or so I gathered. Anyway, I moved drives around and installed Windows - FreeBSD