Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2010 22:58:17 +0200 From: Peter Boosten <peter@boosten.org> To: Peter Boosten <peter@boosten.org> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Problems with upgrade - lost partition Message-ID: <04B5DBAB-ECB2-45B4-BC1E-068824019A3A@boosten.org> In-Reply-To: <4C778326.8090802@boosten.org> References: <4C778326.8090802@boosten.org>
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Ping... -- HTTP://www.boosten.org On 27 aug 2010, at 11:19, Peter Boosten <peter@boosten.org> wrote: > Hi, > > I recently updated a machine (running on VMWare) from 7.2 to 8.1. > > This machine has two (virtual) disks. While the upgrade went rather > smooth ('make buildworld, make buildkernel, make installkernel, reboot > into single user, mergemaster -p, make installworld, mergemaster, > reboot), I lost the partition on the second harddrive. > > So after reboot, the machine went directly in single user mode, > because > my /dev/ad1s1a was gone. The only devices in /dev where ad1 (the disk) > and ad1s1 (the slice). > > Since I had a backup this didn't seem to be such a problem, however > recreating the slice was. > > The only way I could get rid of that slice was through the gpart > utility > (sysinstall wouldn't help me at all): > > gpart delete ad1s1 > gpart destroy ad1 > > After that sysinstall worked again. Is there any way around this (and > preferably rescue the partition somehow, since I have more machines to > upgrade, and while backups are there, restoring creates an additional > delay in the whole process). > > Also, the numbering of the NICs changed from le0 to le1, which isn't > that a big problem, but rather annoying. > > > Thanks in advance. > > Peter > -- > http://www.boosten.org > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org > "
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