Re: won't boot after 8.0-RELEASE upgrade

2009-12-10 Thread Ivo Karabojkov
Can someone give me a clue what went wrong in so described upgrade and what made Kernel 8.0 REL not to see either disklabel nor even partition of my gmirror? I need some advice prior starting upgrade process of the rest of my servers. As you see in my previous posts the problem is NOT in DD mode!

Re: won't boot after 8.0-RELEASE upgrade

2009-12-09 Thread Ivo Karabojkov
As I guessed, I am using standard, not DD mode. Despite of this I was unable to boot, and even more: FreeBSD 8.0 sysinstall did not find any partitions neither on the (g)mirror, hardware RAID I described above or any individual disks part of the RAID. I had to use FreeBSD 7.2 livefs to copy my

Re: won't boot after 8.0-RELEASE upgrade

2009-12-08 Thread Ruben de Groot
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

Re: won't boot after 8.0-RELEASE upgrade

2009-12-08 Thread Ivo Karabojkov
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

Re: won't boot after 8.0-RELEASE upgrade

2009-12-08 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 8 Dec 2009 14:09:16 -0800 (PST), Ivo Karabojkov i...@kit-bg.com wrote: So I'd like to know how to distinguish mode of my current filesystems - is it standard or dangerously dedicated? If you've first created a slice on the disk, and then partitions inside the slice, it's standard mode,

Re: won't boot after 8.0-RELEASE upgrade

2009-12-08 Thread Tom Worster
On 12/8/09 5:21 PM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Tue, 8 Dec 2009 14:09:16 -0800 (PST), Ivo Karabojkov i...@kit-bg.com wrote: So I'd like to know how to distinguish mode of my current filesystems - is it standard or dangerously dedicated? If you've first created a slice on the

Re: won't boot after 8.0-RELEASE upgrade

2009-12-07 Thread Tom Worster
On 12/6/09 1:06 PM, Ivo Karabojkov i...@kit-bg.com wrote: Since I have some servers to manage I am very interested how should I upgrade to 8.0 Rel? this is a big question. for my production servers i like to keep things simple and use the generic binary distribution. and i've been trying to

Re: won't boot after 8.0-RELEASE upgrade

2009-12-07 Thread Ivo Karabojkov
I had to reformat my drive since I had reached the point of no return... So I am also nervous. My first failure was with a-kind-of hardware raid, ar, built with cheap VIA VT6421A controller. After installkernel the system refused to boot and on its display was message hardware failure, you have

Re: won't boot after 8.0-RELEASE upgrade

2009-12-06 Thread Ivo Karabojkov
I don't think it's FreeBSD update. I always use CVSup and build world. So I fall into the same hole with no way up. I use gmirror, my device names are full including slice (e.g. /dev/mirror/gm0s1a and it was produced from /dev/ad4s1a some years ago), so I think I'm not using “dangerously

won't boot after 8.0-RELEASE upgrade

2009-12-03 Thread Tom Worster
after running freebsd-update -r 8.0-RELEASE upgrade my system won't boot. it gets stuck on mountroot and i can't find the magic word it wants. the system used to have two sata drives /dev/ad4 and ad6. they were partitioned and sliced using the deafaults that sysinstall suggested. at the boot

Re: won't boot after 8.0-RELEASE upgrade

2009-12-03 Thread Tom Worster
On 12/3/09 11:14 AM, Tom Worster f...@thefsb.org wrote: after running freebsd-update -r 8.0-RELEASE upgrade my system won't boot. it gets stuck on mountroot and i can't find the magic word it wants. the system used to have two sata drives /dev/ad4 and ad6. they were partitioned and sliced