Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2009 18:23:18 +0400 From: Kamigishi Rei <spambox@haruhiism.net> To: Matt Smith <freebsd@xtaz.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Disk devices changed after upgrade to current Message-ID: <4A58A056.3020002@haruhiism.net> In-Reply-To: <fdfa5f6e734eaf50cc774efb62bbdba2@xtaz.co.uk> References: <fdfa5f6e734eaf50cc774efb62bbdba2@xtaz.co.uk>
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Matt Smith wrote: > I have just upgraded my system from 7.2 to 8.0 using a source based > upgrade. After rebooting it for the first time the server unfortunately > failed to come back up. I had a look at the console and found that it was > failing to find the root device and prompting me for it. By manually > entering it I managed to boot the server and could then see the problem. > > In the 7.2 fstab my root partition and swap space were ad4s1a and ad4s1b > but after booting the 8.0 kernel these seem to have changed to ad4a and > ad4b so I set the new names in the fstab and it's now working fine. I read > through the UPDATING file before I did this but I couldn't see any warnings > that this may occur. The only entry that's possibly relevant is 20090320 > talking about GEOM_PART. > If you check June'09 archives, you'll find out that there already was a question about this, coming from a person with FreeBSD installed on a dangerously dedicated disk. Are you sure you aren't using a DDD (a drive that has no DOS/GPT partition tables, just the bsdlabel)? -- Kamigishi Rei
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