Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2017 00:14:54 -0700 From: "Jack L." <xxjack12xx@gmail.com> To: Kurt Buff <kurt.buff@gmail.com> Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: FUBAR on an upgrade - need some help Message-ID: <CALeGphzrYGaWPqH_RCHY21UQf4XM12K29JvmHTL2Ww2cyL9biw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CADy1Ce4Su5NDequMC3t10Suut6iSsw=zT0RK1h_GpRxnQQsFEQ@mail.gmail.com> References: <CADy1Ce4Su5NDequMC3t10Suut6iSsw=zT0RK1h_GpRxnQQsFEQ@mail.gmail.com>
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boot into single user mode and then mount -rw / and then modify fstab On Tue, Aug 15, 2017 at 7:29 PM, Kurt Buff <kurt.buff@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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