From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 30 07:02:54 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C28DD106564A for ; Fri, 30 Apr 2010 07:02:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from reinhard.haller@interactive-net.de) Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de (moutng.kundenserver.de [212.227.17.8]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 500EC8FC16 for ; Fri, 30 Apr 2010 07:02:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from interactive.dnsalias.net (ppp-88-217-30-198.dynamic.mnet-online.de [88.217.30.198]) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (node=mreu2) with ESMTP (Nemesis) id 0M6AEI-1N9l270cLi-00xaSZ; Fri, 30 Apr 2010 09:02:53 +0200 Received: from scalix.interactive.de ([fd08:e8a3:4825:0:20c:29ff:feaa:3622]) by interactive.dnsalias.net with esmtp (Exim 4.71 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1O7kFQ-000E3C-CS; Fri, 30 Apr 2010 09:02:52 +0200 Received: from scalix.interactive.de (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by scalix.interactive.de (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id o3U72ptc013943; Fri, 30 Apr 2010 09:02:51 +0200 Received: from [127.0.0.1] (Core2Duo.interactive.de [192.168.0.196]) by scalix.interactive.de (Scalix SMTP Relay 11.4.5.13150) via ESMTP; Fri, 30 Apr 2010 09:02:51 +0200 (CEST) Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2010 09:02:48 +0200 From: Reinhard Haller To: Marcel Moolenaar Message-ID: <4BDA8098.3070108@interactive-net.de> In-Reply-To: <7A0C963C-7EF8-461D-B27A-104BD5D7A953@mac.com> References: <4BD98477.10003@interactive-net.de> References: <7A0C963C-7EF8-461D-B27A-104BD5D7A953@mac.com> x-scalix-Hops: 1 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; de; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100317 Lightning/1.0b1 Thunderbird/3.0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Disposition: inline X-ACL-rcpt: xcllnt@mac.com X-ACL-rcpt: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-ACL-Send: reinhard.haller@interactive-net.de X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1/LE0ibfLhik1WjYEQBCTuCfEnoBh3uvcIWgOb APZCPuSxmqxyfiLaTRvvqR/tp1evhevu4PoyRqY34/8lPBuLWL CfEgbcj3PdBtsQXV32qa1OnKhxTF2xdSUuXyUb8jQdUCTWrjya VjQ== Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 8.0 upgrade & geometry does not match label X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2010 07:02:54 -0000 Am 29.04.2010 16:29, schrieb Marcel Moolenaar: > On Apr 29, 2010, at 6:07 AM, Reinhard Haller wrote: > > >> Hi, >> >> as far as I know my disk is not operating in dangerously dedicated mode. >> Despite this I'm unable to upgrade to freebsd 8.0. >> > Please explain how or why you can't upgrade. The information you gave > does not point towards any problems. All looks good. > > Also, the subject line mentions "geometry does not match label", but > you did not mention anything it in your email about it. Again, it > by itself does not indicate a problem. > > Thanks, > > the kernel reboots and one of the last lines contains the well known geometry string and a bufwrite error -- and no entry in any logfile. Currently I'm preparing a kernel with debugging enabled to track down the issue. I don't believe the disk geometry problems are responsible for the reboot, but having solved this issue should help.