Re: can't mount root during freebsd-update 7.0 - 8.1 on amd64

2010-12-11 Thread Joost Bekkers
On Tue, Dec 07, 2010 at 01:26:56PM -0600, Steve Randall wrote: 2010/12/5 jo...@jodocus.org: Hi I'm trying to upgrade a amd64 box from 7.0-RELEASE to 8.1-RELEASE with freebsd-update. After the first reboot the 8.1R GENERIC kernel loads (I'm using a custom kernel, so at this

Re: can't mount root during freebsd-update 7.0 - 8.1 on amd64

2010-12-07 Thread joost
2010/12/5 jo...@jodocus.org: Hi I'm trying to upgrade a amd64 box from 7.0-RELEASE to 8.1-RELEASE with freebsd-update. After the first reboot the 8.1R GENERIC kernel loads (I'm using a custom kernel, so at this point the generic kernel is loaded manually) It then claims it can't mount /

Re: can't mount root during freebsd-update 7.0 - 8.1 on amd64

2010-12-07 Thread Steve Randall
On Tue, 7 Dec 2010 19:09:53 +0100 jo...@jodocus.org wrote: 2010/12/5 jo...@jodocus.org: Hi I'm trying to upgrade a amd64 box from 7.0-RELEASE to 8.1-RELEASE with freebsd-update. After the first reboot the 8.1R GENERIC kernel loads (I'm using a custom kernel, so at this point the

Re: can't mount root during freebsd-update 7.0 - 8.1 on amd64

2010-12-06 Thread Andrey V. Elsukov
On 06.12.2010 3:11, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: GEOM_PART (gpart) is a new GEOM partition class (slicer) and utility that rolls up support for many partitioning formats (MBR, BSD, GPT etc.) into a single code base. ... NOTE: Some old utilities like bsdlabel may not work if the kernel

can't mount root during freebsd-update 7.0 - 8.1 on amd64

2010-12-05 Thread joost
Hi I'm trying to upgrade a amd64 box from 7.0-RELEASE to 8.1-RELEASE with freebsd-update. After the first reboot the 8.1R GENERIC kernel loads (I'm using a custom kernel, so at this point the generic kernel is loaded manually) It then claims it can't mount / One thing that's odd is that instead

Re: can't mount root during freebsd-update 7.0 - 8.1 on amd64

2010-12-05 Thread David DEMELIER
2010/12/5 jo...@jodocus.org: Hi I'm trying to upgrade a amd64 box from 7.0-RELEASE to 8.1-RELEASE with freebsd-update. After the first reboot the 8.1R GENERIC kernel loads (I'm using a custom kernel, so at this point the generic kernel is loaded manually) It then claims it can't mount /

Re: can't mount root during freebsd-update 7.0 - 8.1 on amd64

2010-12-05 Thread perryh
David DEMELIER demelier.da...@gmail.com wrote: Here : http://ivoras.sharanet.org/freebsd/freebsd8.html GEOM_PART becomes the default slicer Status: Committed to -CURRENT Will appear in 8.0: sure Author: Marcel Moolenaar others Web: commit message GEOM_PART (gpart) is a new GEOM

Re: can't mount root during freebsd-update 7.0 - 8.1 on amd64

2010-12-05 Thread perryh
Andrey V. Elsukov bu7c...@yandex.ru wrote: NOTE: Some old utilities like bsdlabel may not work if the kernel doesn't include GEOM_BSD and other old slicer classes. In other words, bsdlabel et al don't work with GEOM_PART. Does this mean that, in 8.1-RELEASE, bsdlabel/disklabel will

Re: can't mount root during freebsd-update 7.0 - 8.1 on amd64

2010-12-05 Thread Andrey V. Elsukov
On 06.12.2010 10:22, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: Thanks, that's what I had hoped (but had noticed a few things lately that had me wondering whether they might perhaps not be working entirely _correctly_ -- I need to do some more experimentation). The next question then is, when _does_ the