On Tue, Jun 16, 2026 at 09:11:13AM -0400, Nick Holland wrote: > On 6/15/26 20:51, Zbigniew Kossowski wrote: > > Device: HP 2 small servers (Atheon CPU) > > that doesn't narrow it down sufficiently, unfortunately. > > > As usual from some 30 releases I have upgraded manualy 7.8 to 7.9 > > manually -- what process did you use for that? > Why did you not use the automatic upgrade process? > > I suspect the problem comes from the answers here. > > > After reboot it is UNUSUAL INCONSISTENCY of swap (sd4b) and / (sd4a) > > and advice to RUN fsck MANUALY. > > you need to elaborate on this... Swap should not need an fsck -- it's > just storage space, it isn't a file system. > > So (as usual), we need to see exactly what you are doing and what message > you are getting when you do it. > > > fsck_ffs doesn't work because disks are not configured > > Again -- show exactly what you are doing and exactly the error message you > are getting. > > fsck is in /bin, which should be part of your root file system, so if the > system tries to boot at all, you should have fsck available. > > Failing that, boot from bsd.rd and run fsck from there. > > > fdisk doesn't work because it is lack of /usr/mdec/mbr - only / partition > > accesible, not /usr > > No idea what you are doing with fdisk -- but I'd suggest don't. > > > > > Dmesg looks ok, softraid0 created. I cannot send dmesg because cannot copy > > form device. > > Softraid? That's an added complication which you should elaborate on. >
There was a big change to the device nodes for disk drives as a prep step to support more partitions. So if you did not rerun MAKEDEV the sd4 minor numbers are off and nothing works. -- :wq Claudio
