From owner-freebsd-bugs Mon Aug 28 3: 6:21 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Received: from lists01.iafrica.com (lists01.iafrica.com [196.7.0.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D91F637B423 for ; Mon, 28 Aug 2000 03:06:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nwl.fw.uunet.co.za ([196.31.2.162]) by lists01.iafrica.com with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #2) id 13TLny-0005o2-00; Mon, 28 Aug 2000 12:06:14 +0200 Received: (from nobody@localhost) by nwl.fw.uunet.co.za (8.8.8/8.6.9) id MAA04614; Mon, 28 Aug 2000 12:06:07 +0200 (SAST) Received: by nwl.fw.uunet.co.za via recvmail id 4462; Mon Aug 28 12:05:42 2000 Received: from sheldonh (helo=axl.fw.uunet.co.za) by axl.fw.uunet.co.za with local-esmtp (Exim 3.16 #1) id 13TLnS-000KEq-00; Mon, 28 Aug 2000 12:05:42 +0200 From: Sheldon Hearn To: David Hardman Cc: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: i386/20833: On first boot, filesystem failed, startup aborted In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 26 Aug 2000 01:30:03 MST." <200008260830.BAA83552@freefall.freebsd.org> Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 12:05:42 +0200 Message-ID: <77799.967457142@axl.fw.uunet.co.za> Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, 26 Aug 2000 01:30:03 MST, David Hardman wrote: > I first upgraded from 3.5 to 4.1, then installed 4.1, then installed > 4.0. Both the upgrade and both the new installation had the same > problem. I installed 4.1 a number of times always with the same result. > On upgrade or installation I only used the installation program. > At the moment I have 3.5 installed and also a minimal 4.1. Looking at it with fresh eyes, this looks like a disklabel problem. Of course, I'm guessing, but that's what it looks like to me. Basically, the root partition is remounted read-write, and it's at this point that the failure occurs, because the device name specified for the re-mount operation is different from the device name originally specified for the mount operation. You wanna try update your boot blocks with disklabel(8) and boot0cfg(8)? Ciao, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message