From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Fri Nov 11 10:07:56 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 25603C3B084 for ; Fri, 11 Nov 2016 10:07:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kuku@kukulies.org) Received: from kukulies.org (mail.kukulies.org [78.47.239.221]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D96BF1CA9 for ; Fri, 11 Nov 2016 10:07:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kuku@kukulies.org) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by kukulies.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3BF334DA409 for ; Fri, 11 Nov 2016 11:07:48 +0100 (CET) Received: from kukulies.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (kukulies.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id DYMhvW6bFY1H for ; Fri, 11 Nov 2016 11:07:47 +0100 (CET) Received: from [172.27.4.215] (unknown [87.79.34.228]) by kukulies.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 73B184DA408 for ; Fri, 11 Nov 2016 11:07:47 +0100 (CET) To: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" From: "Christoph P.U. Kukulies" Subject: unknown error during root mount on boot (fstab) in 11.0-RELEASE (after updating) Message-ID: <7f9d7051-be30-54dd-55be-0fa236c28d84@kukulies.org> Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2016 11:07:48 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2016 10:07:56 -0000 I stepwise did an upgrade from a FreeBSD 9.2 to 11.0-RELEASE system using freebsd-update. It went from 9.2 to 10.0 to 10.3 to 11.0. In the last step the system ran into an (unknown) error in the phase where filesystem should get mounted. I found out that it runs through when I uncomment the lines as shown in the fstab: # Device Mountpoint FStype Options Dump Pass# /dev/ada1p2 / ufs rw 1 1 /dev/ada1p3 none swap sw 0 0 #/dev/ad6s1a /mnt/ad6s1a ufs rw 1 1 #/dev/ad6s1e /mnt/ad6s1a/usr ufs rw 2 2 #/dev/ad6s1d /mnt/ad6s1a/var ufs rw 2 2 /dev/acd0 /cdrom cd9660 ro,noauto 0 0 The ad6 lines are the offending ones. I would like to provide more informaion but it escaped me for the moment how I can catch the output during boot into a file and post it here. Any help appreciated. -- Christoph