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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!newsxfer2.itd.umich.edu!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!news.eecs.umich.edu!newshub.tc.umn.edu!umn.edu!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: help /var and /user no longer found Date: 19 Mar 1996 00:06:25 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 29 Message-ID: <4iktq1$sl4@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <crb-1803960124300001@128.8.21.94> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 crb@eng.umd.edu (Christopher R. Bowman) writes: > I go and run pspice in > windows for a while, and later when I reboot to run freebsd again, the > kernal can't seem to find any partitions/slices other than the root. > The machine boot the kernal and then when it goes to swap on either > drive it says no such file or device, same for mounting /usr and /var. Have you trashed your fdisk table? Boot into single user (-s at the boot prompt), and try to look around. fdisk is on the root partition, as well as a very simple editor (ed). In order to mount the root file system writeable, first fsck it: fsck /dev/rwd0a then mount it r/w: mount -u /dev/wd0a / (assuming an IDE drive). -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)