Heylas,
So, I ran 6.8 syspatch (patches 002 and 003 together) for three systems
today (yesterday by the time anyone sees this, most likely). Two came
right back up as expected. The third didn't, but as it's local, I could
go retry at the console (all three were actually patched and rebooted
via ssh).
It won't start the boot, but displays "No active partition". Checking
online, this message seems to indicate a failed upgrade, with the
bootloader load incomplete, and (because I was distracted, and running
three updates in a state of fatigue), it's actually likely that what I
did was to Ctrl-B D out of tmux before it returned from kernel
relinking, and then hit doas reboot unthinkingly. Anyway, that's my
guess.
Is there a straightforward way to install kernel and bootloader without
requiring a system reinstall? Can I 'upgrade' with an install cd or usb
stick from (broken) 6.8+sp3 to 6.8, and then syspatch it up to date?
I'm trying to avoid full reinstall because that seems likely to wipe
out existing configuration. I figure my fallback is create install
stick/cd (from the other local 6.8, which was successfully updated),
boot from that, pull backups of all the configuration so I don't have
to reconfigure all the services (and double-check sizes and locations
of disk slices on the boot drive, and store that somewhere safe, then
reinstall and copy stuff back (it's all backed up, in fact, but it's
not backed up recently enough for confidence). So ... faster way to fix
my screwup, when I've probably borked my kernel and the bootloader,
somehow?
Or if it is entirely impossible that "No active partition" could be the
result of kernel relinking borkage, and it's obvious to someone that
something else (hardware failure showing up on a reboot?) happened, I'd
welcome clues. Thanks.
Amy!
--
Amelia A. Lewis amyzing {at} talsever.org
Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old
woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.
-- Sir Impey Biggs [Dorothy L. Sayers, "Clouds of
Witness"]
