Hello,
My fresh install (about 2 weeks old) of 6.8 currently fails to boot.
Here is what happened leading up to it:
1. I did a fresh install of 6.8 on 2021-01-01, +- 1 or 2 days.
2. I've used it without problems until today.
3. Today, I suspended the system.
4. When the system woke up, it would fail to run most of the
commands I was entering in the terminal, claiming it could not find
the respective command. It even failed `doas reboot`, claiming it
could not find the reboot command, same for `doas shutdown -p now`.
So I decided to reboot the system by holding the Poweroff button. I
didn't hold it enough to power off instantly, instead it seems to
have managed to sync the disks, and only then shut down.
However, this problem with commands might have appeared even before
I suspended the machine. I'm not sure.
5. When the system began rebooting, I didn't get past the point
after I enter the encryption passphrase:
Using drive 0, partition 3.
Loading......
probing: pc0 mem[628K 3277M 8678M a20=on]
disk: hd0+ sr0*
>> OpenBSD/amd64 BOOT 3.52
Passphrase:
open(sr0a:/etc/boot.conf): Unknown error: code 20
boot>
cannot open sr0a:/etc/random.seed: Unknown error: code 20
booting sr0a:/bsd: open sr0a:/bsd: Unknown error: code 20
failed(20). will try /bsd
boot>
cannot open sr0a:/etc/random.seed: Unknown error: code 20
booting sr0a:/bsd: open sr0a:/bsd: Unknown error: code 20
failed(20). will try /bsd
Turning timeout off.
boot>
Multiple attempts to reboot have lead to the same result. I
currently can not boot the system.
6. For what it's worth, I've also tried to boot from the install
media and then decrypt and mount my /home partition from the
no-longer-booting installation. (I need to save a few files there no
matter how I resolve this situation). It decrypted OK, and mounted
the /home partition onto the /mnt3 directory, which I created while
running on install media. However:
# mount /dev/sd2k /mnt3
# ls /mnt3
ls: /mnt3: Bad file descriptor
As such, I don't know how to access my data.
7. I've thought about putting the bsd.rd onto / to try to boot from
it, but I was unable to mount / using the above method:
# mkdir /mnt4
# mount /dev/sd2a /mnt4
# ls /mnt4
/mnt4
# cd /mnt4
sh: cd: /mnt4 - No such file or directory
Plus, I couldn't find bsd.rd on the install media anyway.
8. I've also tried to run the (U)pgrade process to no avail:
[begin installation]
[go to (S)hell]
[decrypt the encrypted partition, which got attached as sd2]
[continue using (U)pgrade]
Which disk is the root disk? ('?' for details) sd2
sd2 is not a valid root disk.
Available disks are: .
Which disk is the root disk? ('?' for details) [sd2] sd2a
sd2a is not a valid root disk.
The machine is Lenovo Thinkpad T440s.
Any help in resolving this is greatly appreciated.
Thank you,
Max
