On Fri, Nov 07, 2025 at 03:40:27PM -0700, Luke A. Call wrote: > Which is what happened after I had to do a hard reset and re-do the > above, due to the keyboard freezing (^Q did't help nor ^C nor anything > else I tried). But I got back where I was, then doing "ls -lR|more" on > the mounted directory and ^Z causes it to lock again...so I will > reboot again and re-do fsck -p on it.
Did this lock-up happen just once, or is it happening repeatedly whilst the machine is booted in to a 7.8 kernel? > Maybe the error/panic that is causing the reboot > during upgrade comes in some fast subsequent step after the "Mounting > root filesystem" message. > But it flashes off too fast to see what comes next. Maybe if I took a > video, found some video editing software, and paused it to see the very > end. But happy to try more other things... The next step after the "Mounting root filesystem" message is bringing up the network devices. It's plausible that something could be going wrong there. But first, quickly check that the "checking root filesystem" and "mounting root filesystem" messages specify the expected device. The format of the latter message is: Mounting root filesystem (mount -o ro /dev/FOO /mnt)... ... where FOO is the device being mounted. Hopefully it is sd0a in your case. Assuming that is not the issue, and returning to the next step of bringing up the network devices... From your dmesg the only network card in this machine seems to be bce0. You could try disabling that device in the bootloader and see if that allows the 7.8 ramdisk installer to finish booting, (or at least get further).
