From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jul 11 14:23:16 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B52F0106566B for ; Sat, 11 Jul 2009 14:23:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from spambox@haruhiism.net) Received: from fujibayashi.jp (karas.fujibayashi.jp [77.221.159.4]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6EBBE8FC0A for ; Sat, 11 Jul 2009 14:23:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from spambox@haruhiism.net) Received: from [192.168.0.2] (ppp91-122-47-189.pppoe.avangarddsl.ru [91.122.47.189]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by fujibayashi.jp (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 6B2FD78F53; Sat, 11 Jul 2009 18:23:14 +0400 (MSD) Message-ID: <4A58A056.3020002@haruhiism.net> Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2009 18:23:18 +0400 From: Kamigishi Rei User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (Windows/20090605) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Matt Smith References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Disk devices changed after upgrade to current X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2009 14:23:16 -0000 Matt Smith wrote: > I have just upgraded my system from 7.2 to 8.0 using a source based > upgrade. After rebooting it for the first time the server unfortunately > failed to come back up. I had a look at the console and found that it was > failing to find the root device and prompting me for it. By manually > entering it I managed to boot the server and could then see the problem. > > In the 7.2 fstab my root partition and swap space were ad4s1a and ad4s1b > but after booting the 8.0 kernel these seem to have changed to ad4a and > ad4b so I set the new names in the fstab and it's now working fine. I read > through the UPDATING file before I did this but I couldn't see any warnings > that this may occur. The only entry that's possibly relevant is 20090320 > talking about GEOM_PART. > If you check June'09 archives, you'll find out that there already was a question about this, coming from a person with FreeBSD installed on a dangerously dedicated disk. Are you sure you aren't using a DDD (a drive that has no DOS/GPT partition tables, just the bsdlabel)? -- Kamigishi Rei