From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jul 11 14:56:08 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 C52AF106566C for ; Sat, 11 Jul 2009 14:56:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from barney_cordoba@yahoo.com) Received: from web63908.mail.re1.yahoo.com (web63908.mail.re1.yahoo.com [69.147.97.123]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 680E08FC0C for ; Sat, 11 Jul 2009 14:56:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from barney_cordoba@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 28699 invoked by uid 60001); 11 Jul 2009 14:29:26 -0000 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=yahoo.com; s=s1024; t=1247322566; bh=46ZtZuBDb1ituTTIFCpR4fm1MO4Wd1XnIYddYN8H8vY=; h=Message-ID:X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Mailer:Date:From:Subject:To:Cc:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=JfozgsMmypcl4eUnNoFNdPjE+sTh6foC72aFT5bANNuf2IvCGnVW/6Hou7G+e7vM1mgT09z1/lZwS8ecwvNOhBkSVePP8kPLVSvKj4DItrYeMrD7JEj4mZRiN5I3kuk3mv4fQ1+vj2MJUbSohmmAzOG+JxCB3pSLkOGOKwKMvpM= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=Message-ID:X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Mailer:Date:From:Subject:To:Cc:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=RC29S5T+JP9DyCMR2bOYsQFoQFWv6YiZYQcHOejWK8n2jusOwOafNvDawIwXrN9Pb4+LzdYWSORCQTAoUEePqvGugTAkOE4CUrGPTh6QGUwZCy/oT+u9Z1CvYfdByyi158MJ1VRghOYQ+lamPx6A6bvSSAryUTjYrfvWiDw6Suk=; Message-ID: <245714.27770.qm@web63908.mail.re1.yahoo.com> X-YMail-OSG: 2vDngM4VM1nI0xkeQAsVrVSR3sjMgkWXBoe5SbFkHYH05k1cB94yXwfMJxCoX_kPk9lYYlDKZKeU5ehutL5dIQhmyr1wEPyUcLlp7Io4BijHs1A5SctclE.oppK8i0Wl0jaf3gOwlOTNw5UPji88fDxtbD.ddncOn..ELJMmcTpgszPMdehV5HWtf.5QDXzpll4Nohsk4hAD_SY_mGEWnvXWcsKXRvo4MGnjrwW6DTnMOiolMkyO_CfiPujq8gF_ezzJ8swwid3Kp.w7ZtaT7GPHLNudRZMROer7roy7MtSHPe_qqHXwIzLHjQ-- Received: from [66.176.162.245] by web63908.mail.re1.yahoo.com via HTTP; Sat, 11 Jul 2009 07:29:26 PDT X-Mailer: YahooMailClassic/5.4.17 YahooMailWebService/0.7.289.15 Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2009 07:29:26 -0700 (PDT) From: Barney Cordoba To: Matt Smith , Kamigishi Rei MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 14:56:09 -0000 =0A=0A--- On Sat, 7/11/09, Kamigishi Rei wrote:=0A= =0A> From: Kamigishi Rei =0A> Subject: Re: Disk devi= ces changed after upgrade to current=0A> To: "Matt Smith" =0A> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org=0A> Date: Saturday, July 11, 2009, = 10:23 AM=0A> Matt Smith wrote:=0A> > I have just upgraded my system from 7.= 2 to 8.0 using a=0A> source based=0A> > upgrade. After rebooting it for the= first time the=0A> server unfortunately=0A> > failed to come back up. I ha= d a look at the console=0A> and found that it was=0A> > failing to find the= root device and prompting me for=0A> it. By manually=0A> > entering it I m= anaged to boot the server and could=0A> then see the problem.=0A> > =0A> > = In the 7.2 fstab my root partition and swap space were=0A> ad4s1a and ad4s1= b=0A> > but after booting the 8.0 kernel these seem to have=0A> changed to = ad4a and=0A> > ad4b so I set the new names in the fstab and it's now=0A> wo= rking fine. I read=0A> > through the UPDATING file before I did this but I= =0A> couldn't see any warnings=0A> > that this may occur. The only entry th= at's possibly=0A> relevant is 20090320=0A> > talking about GEOM_PART.=0A> >= =A0=A0=A0=0A> If you check June'09 archives, you'll find out that there=0A>= already was a question about this, coming from a person with=0A> FreeBSD i= nstalled on a dangerously dedicated disk.=0A> Are you sure you aren't using= a DDD (a drive that has no=0A> DOS/GPT partition tables, just the bsdlabel= )?=0A> =0A> --=0A> Kamigishi Rei=0A=0AThis, unfortunately, is a common prob= lem. There are devices detected in 8 that are not detected in 7 (or vice ve= rsa). You can try disabling acpi but that causes different problems. I wasn= 't able to get 7 and 8 synced in terms of detecting disks no matter what se= ttings I used.=0A=0ABarney=0A=0A=0A