Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 16:03:48 -0600 From: Derek Ragona <derek@computinginnovations.com> To: "Deian Popov" <deianp@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freebsd dead after attempt on upgrade from 6.2 to 6.3 Message-ID: <6.0.0.22.2.20080215160016.024cfc50@mail.computinginnovations.com> In-Reply-To: <bfc2b10c0802151302m20a2aebfwe064c0d3a8d4be44@mail.gmail.co m> References: <bfc2b10c0802151302m20a2aebfwe064c0d3a8d4be44@mail.gmail.com>
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At 03:02 PM 2/15/2008, Deian Popov wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I'm pretty stuck with the death of my bsd machine after attempt on upgrade
>from 6.2 to 6.3. Some time ago, I successfully upgraded from 6.1 to
>6.2following the steps in the manual
>
>1) cvsup source to specific release
>2) buildworld
>3) buildkernel
>4) installkernel
>5) boot
>6) mergemaster -p
>7) installworld
>8) mergemaster
>9) boot
>
>Now, after completing steps 1 to 5 the system won't boot and stucks at the
>following prompt
>
>bsd: Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/ad1s1a
>bsd: mountroot>
>
>the prompt has "?" command which shows available boot devices. The only
>device present there is my floppy (fd0)
>
>I can choose to boot to loader prompt but have no idea how to recorver, and
>more interesting, to figure out why that failure occurred?
>
>Any help is appreciated.
In some 6.x versions the upgrade can go south. I had this happen on one
server, and this is how I fixed it:
I downloaded and burned the release iso. I booted the system from CD, then
in sysinstall, I used the emergency shell. In the emergency shell I
mounted my drives and had a peek. In my case I saw there was no
kernel. So I copied the kernel from the cd to my root / drive. After that
I could reboot from the hard drive, and finished my upgrade.
Hope this helps.
-Derek
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