From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 18 16:40:29 2000 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 18 16:40:26 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from rm-rstar.sfu.ca (rm-rstar.sfu.ca [142.58.120.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D913E37B402 for ; Mon, 18 Dec 2000 16:40:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from fraser.sfu.ca (wolstena@fraser.sfu.ca [142.58.101.25]) by rm-rstar.sfu.ca (8.10.1/8.10.1/SFU-5.0H) with ESMTP id eBJ0ePo06567 for ; Mon, 18 Dec 2000 16:40:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (wolstena@localhost) by fraser.sfu.ca (8.9.2/8.9.2/SFU-5.0C) with ESMTP id QAA28011 for ; Mon, 18 Dec 2000 16:40:25 -0800 (PST) X-Authentication-Warning: fraser.sfu.ca: wolstena owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 16:40:25 -0800 (PST) From: Paul Wolstenholme To: Subject: Botched 3.3->4.2 upgrade 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 During an attempted upgrade, I did not have enough disk space on / and the upgrade failed. I have tried to boot into single user mode using the old kernel: load kernel.prev boot -s but I cannot seem to mount the / in write mode. If I try: mount -u / I get the following error: mount: Block device required I know that 4.0 no longer uses block devices. So, how do I mount / after this failed install so I can make the required adjustments. Thanks, Paul -- ______________________________________________________________________ Paul Wolstenholme Centre for Policy Research on S&T (p)604.291.5169 Simon Fraser University (f)604.291.5165 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message