From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 13 23:48:22 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fremont.bolingbroke.com (adsl-216-102-90-210.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [216.102.90.210]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B7213DAD for ; Sun, 13 Feb 2000 23:48:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (ken@localhost) by fremont.bolingbroke.com (Pro-8.9.3/Pro-8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA58185 for ; Sun, 13 Feb 2000 23:48:34 -0800 (PST) Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2000 23:48:33 -0800 (PST) From: Ken Bolingbroke X-Sender: ken@fremont.bolingbroke.com To: Freebsd Questions Subject: sysinstall fsck hangs system? In-Reply-To: <14503.21857.343169.24623@anarcat.dyndns.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have a 2.2.8-R system I'm trying to upgrade to 3.4-R. I downloaded the boot floppies off ftp.freebsd.org from the 3.4-R floppies directory, and booted off those, then selected the Upgrade option at the appropriate point. After asking me to label my slices, it does a fsck on the root slice /dev/rwd0s1a, then a 'fsck -y /dev/rwd1s1g' which goes through fine, then a 'fsck -y /dev/rwd0s1e' and at this point, all disk activity stops and it just hangs indefinitely. From looking on the other virtual console (ALT-F2), I see it stopped at: ** /dev/rwd0s1e ** Last Mounted on /usr ** Phase 1 - Check Blocks and Sizes ** Phase 2 - Check Pathnames On either console, CTRL-C is unresponsive, even ALT-CTRL-DEL doesn't do anything. If I reboot back into 2.2.8 single-user mode, I can fsck that slice just fine, no problems. But the 3.4 sysinstall hangs up on it every time. Is there anyway to tell sysinstall's Upgrade option to skip the fsck, or to fix it? On another note, when downloading the floppies, I see a subdirectory, /updates/, that contains a slightly more recent version of mfsroot.flp. I tried both, but noticed no difference. What's up with that? ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/3.4-RELEASE/floppies/updates Ken Bolingbroke hacker@bolingbroke.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message