From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Wed Aug 16 02:29:24 2017 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F0034DDFC69 for ; Wed, 16 Aug 2017 02:29:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kurt.buff@gmail.com) Received: from mail-io0-x22d.google.com (mail-io0-x22d.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4001:c06::22d]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id BC9D06B1B2 for ; Wed, 16 Aug 2017 02:29:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kurt.buff@gmail.com) Received: by mail-io0-x22d.google.com with SMTP id c74so9040524iod.4 for ; Tue, 15 Aug 2017 19:29:24 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20161025; h=mime-version:from:date:message-id:subject:to; bh=LvSes0+E8QcfrcX0BLSZ4vqPCF/Et1sdLw+9KGNTcI4=; b=Hat/9SXhHXCVmkhQyNvweXqVgnh3WuOe8CONFv6V88WcXP41PyKwsf2ZJrkiiYuHlA Ogcr+7lh94Vdb3ZI5XAc2uf863S/fQYscsJxEgVdPl5TVmG8zSVKTc+KoJClmJtuV7Nl Eoy1DwKP/qNrdQ/YWihYfrDkWYIjDl/AeUxCJkv+ouEEurHxQv4dzMQMi1QzSeVwYNt9 vxUafw2ZiIPM4vRWm9ryWsZ6ru9wEVsQONwrkOyWnEbxrfGuFqS2TSQXLiNWHX864W7N +k6rQVVyEJeS7pcszxyPTStJs9yTuv4BYE3+uYZRAmUpUTpoymQ9D8o64dssXohwVbkj Ur1w== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:from:date:message-id:subject:to; bh=LvSes0+E8QcfrcX0BLSZ4vqPCF/Et1sdLw+9KGNTcI4=; b=YRnkKl0HF9v8yLJqLASBeRQfraJYcmuQRKPj1lenp1BVCzvqci8Ww2rv1EqBfFqNlp zUSDGIk5e8YtFc24L3w74iVNV1oukbjX1iVihQRxl02wIWO82TUx8Oqy6/Tg2vCsudGy ZC/GgCj2cVZxbS6tsrvB1THXgQ7QJOgxdZB9tTYLQ9InzMP3m9h1gbMYf3B+dighbNbx e6tQzKpiIztAs+7oGJWez4OMC9IkFsKwQliPAo+vBnfGxG+VXbGFiFijIZ7XR2oURRGX vwsfFfIjRRjioh3or757JYEueGS6I7YX1dnGt6k9BlTPDAX3jKatPvG1+g1NKLjSpHJs PoSw== X-Gm-Message-State: AHYfb5h197vJvof9beL1S3LYliPuOf0i1oj4T2Z61UIAKbHrAtPqF9IP 3GMi0kJ5xMWzKBS7D3Ggb6yXXbjqIzV6 X-Received: by 10.107.190.195 with SMTP id o186mr182463iof.330.1502850563825; Tue, 15 Aug 2017 19:29:23 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.79.150.135 with HTTP; Tue, 15 Aug 2017 19:29:23 -0700 (PDT) From: Kurt Buff Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2017 19:29:23 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: FUBAR on an upgrade - need some help To: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2017 02:29:25 -0000 I have an old Acer AspireOne netbook that's been running 10.1-RELEASE. Yesterday I upgraded it using freebsd-update to 10.2 and then to 10.3, and it went fine. Then I upgraded it to 11.0-RELEASE, and it failed during boot, saying it wanted to boot from ad4s1a, but couldn't find it. I have managed to get it into single user, and have run "df-h" and "gpart show", which don't agree at all. Output: # df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad4s1a 140G 36G 93G 28% / devfs 1.0k 1.0k 0B 100% /dev #gpart show => 63 312581745 ada0 MBR (149GB) 63 312581745 1 freebsd [active] (149GB => 0 312581745 ada0s1 BSD (149GB) 0 8388608 2 freebsd-swap (4.0GB) 8388608 304193137 1 freebsd-ufs (145GB) # cat /etc/fstab # Device Mountpoint FStype Options Dump Pass# /dev/ad4s1b none swap sw 0 0 /dev/ad4s1a / ufs rw 1 1 I can't seem to use vi to modify fstab. I'm a bit lost on how to recover from this. Can anyone give me a clue? Thanks, Kurt