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Default Adding drives annoys OpenBSD.

Hiya.

I have OpenBSD installed on a drive on my machine. It uses the whole drive.
It is master drive on second IDE channel.
The only other drive was a DVD as slave on secondary.

I added a couple of NTFS drives to the first IDE controller.
Now when I boot I get:

Automatic boot in progress: starting file system checks
Can't open /dev/rwd0a: Device not configured
CAN'T CHECK FILE SYSTEM.
/dev/rwd0a: UNEXPECTED CONSISTENCY; RUN fsck_ffs MANUALLY.
Automatic file system check failed; help!

And then option to spawn a shell.

Any advice?

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The topic is misleading, it sounds to me like you installed the disks and forgot to check the order in which they were detected.

In any case, you should always add a single device at a time... compare dmesg output with and without the drive, you might have to edit /etc/fstab.
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Device numbers are assigned in order, during startup probe. When you installed the OS, you only had a single drive, it was assigned drive #0. You have since added two new drives ... but they are on the first IDE channel, and are found by the probe first. They are assigned drive #0 and #1, now, and your original drive is drive #2 (wd2). From my perspective, you have three choices:
  1. Move cables, and make your original drive the master of the first IDE channel, so it is assigned drive #0 again. You will need to change the boot sequence in your BIOS to match, of course.
  2. Boot in single user mode and edit /etc/fstab, changing all wd0 references to wd2.
  3. Give up and reinstall.
I'd recommend either option 1 or option 2.
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Device numbers are assigned in order, during startup probe. When you installed the OS, you only had a single drive, it was assigned drive #0. You have since added two new drives ... but they are on the first IDE channel, and are found by the probe first. They are assigned drive #0 and #1, now, and your original drive is drive #2 (wd2). From my perspective, you have three choices:
  1. Move cables, and make your original drive the master of the first IDE channel, so it is assigned drive #0 again. You will need to change the boot sequence in your BIOS to match, of course.
  2. Boot in single user mode and edit /etc/fstab, changing all wd0 references to wd2.
  3. Give up and reinstall.
I'd recommend either option 1 or option 2.
I think option 2. Sounds like a simple fix.
BTW, I have one of those BIOSes that allow choosing a boot drive on the fly.

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That seems to have done the trick.
Took all of a minute. Well, perhaps part of a minute. :]

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