Date: Sun, 26 Apr 1998 19:46:17 -0400 From: "Kaleb S. KEITHLEY" <k.#nojunk#keithley@opengroup.org> To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: 3.0-980311-SNAP "upgrade" post mortem Message-ID: <3543C749.167EB0E7@opengroup.org>
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Hi, After being reasonably happy with the 3.0-971225-SNAP I decided to give the newest snap a try. Some general comments FYI and for your consideration. First I tried to upgrade, but the new snap didn't like the superblocks in my filesystems. Nothing in any of the .TXT files warned me about this. The only apparent solution was to newfs all my partitions. After that I fell back to a clean install, having lost the contents of my disks. That's okay, I didn't have anything that I couldn't restore (with a days worth of effort). Still it was surpising that the new snap didn't like my file systems. They'd fsck'ed fine under the prior snap. Oh, BTW, the new snap could mount the old / (as root_device, read-only) just fine, but when it tried to remount it read-write then it would fail. Second, my machine has two IDE controllers: controller 0 has a disk and the CD-ROM drive on it, controller 1 has another disk on it. Here's what mount says: /dev/wd0s2a on / /dev/wd0s2f on /usr /dev/wd0s2e on /var /dev/wd2s1f on /usr/X11 But at boot time I get this message: /kernel: changing root device to wd0s3a Slice 1 (wd0s1) is an OS/2 HPFS partition. Fdisk agrees that there's no partition/slice 3 or 4. Why does this message not say wd0s1a? Third, on all prior releases, including the prior snap, I could set my default route at boot in /etc/rc.network (route add default 130.105.39.20) and it would "stick" until such time as I brought up my ppp link. This doesn't work anymore. Should it? It is/was convenient. Using "add default HISADDR" in the ppp.conf doesn't work either as it tries to set it before the link is up, and that's no better than setting it at boot. -- Kaleb S. KEITHLEY To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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