On Sun, Feb 02, 2003 at 10:50:09AM -0800, Brent Kearney wrote: > > Hello, > > I recently updated a system running freebsd 4.2 to 4.7. I realize > that there is new ATA code in 4.7. This system is on a SCSI disk, > but /home is on a large IDE drive. > > Following a 'make installkernel', I rebooted to single user mode, ran > installworld, then did mergemaster. I let mergemaster run the new > '/dev/MAKEDEV all'. > > The 4.2 system called my /home partition /dev/ad0s1e; during boot up > of 4.7, I see that the disk is recognized, but is called "ad5" instead > of "ad0". I haven't changed the hardware at all, btw. However, there > appears to be no /dev/ad5s1e, and furthermore, when I run the disklabel > editor, it tells me that there is no filesystem on /dev/ad5. If I > reboot to the old 4.2 kernel, somewhat problematically, I can mount > /dev/ad0s1e, and access my files. > > The UPDATING file mentioned the new ata code, but didn't say anything > about the need to re-create filesystems; I must be missing something. >
I should also mention that softupdates is enabled on my old /dev/ad0s1e, though I don't know whether that is relevant. Brent To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message