From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 20 17:39:09 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C988010656A6 for ; Mon, 20 Sep 2010 17:39:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lokadamus@gmx.de) Received: from mail.gmx.net (mailout-de.gmx.net [213.165.64.22]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3911C8FC1C for ; Mon, 20 Sep 2010 17:39:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 20 Sep 2010 17:12:28 -0000 Received: from d136211.adsl.hansenet.de (EHLO [80.171.136.211]) [80.171.136.211] by mail.gmx.net (mp054) with SMTP; 20 Sep 2010 19:12:28 +0200 X-Authenticated: #3333826 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX19i6F4SC0NiXDemW94glNn/1FlYBWZFWlgpD1c/zt 2Rz1gD2WrZgKi+ Message-ID: <4C97961F.8030406@gmx.de> Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2010 19:13:03 +0200 From: Lokadamus User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de; rv:1.9.2.8) Gecko/20100802 Thunderbird/3.1.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Peter Boosten References: <4C778326.8090802@boosten.org> <04B5DBAB-ECB2-45B4-BC1E-068824019A3A@boosten.org> In-Reply-To: <04B5DBAB-ECB2-45B4-BC1E-068824019A3A@boosten.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Problems with upgrade - lost partition X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2010 17:39:09 -0000 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 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" >