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 : > > >> 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 a

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 : > >> 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

2010-12-07 Thread joost
> 2010/12/5 : >> 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

2010-12-06 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 kerne

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_ t

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

2010-12-05 Thread perryh
"Andrey V. Elsukov" 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 > > not

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

2010-12-05 Thread perryh
David DEMELIER 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 partition class (slic

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

2010-12-05 Thread David DEMELIER
2010/12/5 : > 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

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 o