From: Stefan Kell (skba.opbsdgmx.de)
Date: Mon Feb 07 2005 - 09:59:34 CST

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Hi,

what do you expect? IDE drives are not meant to be "plug and play"? If you
add disks and diskcontrollers to your system, you change the system
configuration and you cannot expect that the old wd0 stays wd0. That's the
same with other operating systems.

Anyway: your experience with adding a diskcontroller is expected
bahaviour. I would not add an additional diskcontroller only to remove it
some hours later.

Regards

Stefan Kell

On Mon, 7 Feb 2005, Dave Feustel wrote:

> On Monday 07 February 2005 08:38 am, Stefan Kell wrote:
> > /etc/fstab, boot with option -a, select the new root device and use
> > config to store the changed configuration into a new kernel-image.
>
> My experience with this problem leads me to believe that booting
> with -a is not sufficient. What I have to do is boot from wd0 with fstab entries
> for the partitions on wd0 changed from wd0 to wd2 when booting with
> 2 additional drives connected to an ide controller plugged into the pci bus.
> Removing those drives requires changing the "wd2" in the fstab back to wd0
> to make the wd0 partitions accessible again.
>
> Although I know I can easily modify (or replace) fstab by booting with
> /bsd.rd, the need to do this has stifled my desire to use the extra drives
> which I need in order to have enough space on /usr to do anything with
> the kernel.
>
> Dave Feustel

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