I have no problems with the hardware. In fact neither Release notes nor UPDATING says anything about my possible (and actually occured) problems. The only thing is: “dangerously dedicated” mode for the UFS file system is no longer supported. I never supposed that I'm using this mode. I format disks and install with sysinstall without any special tuning for fdisk or disklabel. I prefer standard options to ensure smooth future upgrades. So I'd like to know how to distinguish mode of my current filesystems - is it standard or dangerously dedicated?
Ruben de Groot wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 08:40:52AM -0800, Ivo Karabojkov typed: >> >> I'm sharing this experience to bring your attention to major advice in >> the >> update procedure - to take full backup. > > While not very new, that's allways good advice ;) > >> My question is: how can I guess the result - "Glory" or "Sorrow" BEFORE >> starting the update? > > Before starting: read the relnotes and errata and search for possible > problems, especially with your particular hardware. > > Then, if you decide to go ahead, install the new kernel and try to boot it > in single user mode. This won't destroy anything and if you experience > problems > like missing devices you can easily back out by booting kernel.old. > > Ruben > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" > > -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/won%27t-boot-after-8.0-RELEASE-upgrade-tp26628661p26701709.html Sent from the freebsd-questions mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"