Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2010 19:13:03 +0200 From: Lokadamus <lokadamus@gmx.de> To: Peter Boosten <peter@boosten.org> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Problems with upgrade - lost partition Message-ID: <4C97961F.8030406@gmx.de> In-Reply-To: <04B5DBAB-ECB2-45B4-BC1E-068824019A3A@boosten.org> References: <4C778326.8090802@boosten.org> <04B5DBAB-ECB2-45B4-BC1E-068824019A3A@boosten.org>
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Under vmware both disk are online? Show dmesg something about the lost disk? Show "atacontrol list" your second hdd? When you use a generic kernel "freebsd-update upgrade -r 8.1-RELEASE" will work fine, i think. Am 18.09.2010 22:58, schrieb Peter Boosten: > Ping... > > -- HTTP://www.boosten.org > > On 27 aug 2010, at 11:19, Peter Boosten <peter@boosten.org> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I recently updated a machine (running on VMWare) from 7.2 to 8.1. >> >> This machine has two (virtual) disks. While the upgrade went rather >> smooth ('make buildworld, make buildkernel, make installkernel, reboot >> into single user, mergemaster -p, make installworld, mergemaster, >> reboot), I lost the partition on the second harddrive. >> >> So after reboot, the machine went directly in single user mode, because >> my /dev/ad1s1a was gone. The only devices in /dev where ad1 (the disk) >> and ad1s1 (the slice). >> >> Since I had a backup this didn't seem to be such a problem, however >> recreating the slice was. >> >> The only way I could get rid of that slice was through the gpart utility >> (sysinstall wouldn't help me at all): >> >> gpart delete ad1s1 >> gpart destroy ad1 >> >> After that sysinstall worked again. Is there any way around this (and >> preferably rescue the partition somehow, since I have more machines to >> upgrade, and while backups are there, restoring creates an additional >> delay in the whole process). >> >> Also, the numbering of the NICs changed from le0 to le1, which isn't >> that a big problem, but rather annoying. >> >> >> Thanks in advance. >> >> Peter >> -- >> http://www.boosten.org >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to >> "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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