From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Apr 8 16:17:44 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D0E57106566B for ; Sun, 8 Apr 2012 16:17:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jrisom@gmail.com) Received: from mail-iy0-f182.google.com (mail-iy0-f182.google.com [209.85.210.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 935EB8FC0C for ; Sun, 8 Apr 2012 16:17:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: by iahk25 with SMTP id k25so6716541iah.13 for ; Sun, 08 Apr 2012 09:17:44 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=eHvSga7Vd+9kDY7c7HcG8aKnaGG3up0fb+d2g2APvZs=; b=Jnj9jckmtXpjlymQGlBU6zS0yBbacBYi/dPAhSB7cjBEVPNm5AMAcgjZH6Jkar7Rtf VleHzz3wV9sHvEvfDMWNVVPMOSV8wuyyd4yxoQ3qiJJyqNchWEOhlQg5vXQE2SM+j3y+ a88H7V8E414rcr/mewxrzA+8trshSGLJSHLFpFdY6hW29OoYfnOyPh5HGM+d8uspcrok lx7rGoIPg6QkGR27drF6N2mEswfn892xiINAcemlUrH8Wy7XusdXI28OP1IRuEzFgT84 c3KIL9HKvKfLw/uh5qg4+YAPDPwGJg4tHDw5VvPJ1pQGGKDAYI7vE+mslwCGHzfzBnRn y2hw== Received: by 10.42.139.9 with SMTP id e9mr2448030icu.43.1333901864088; Sun, 08 Apr 2012 09:17:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.1.3] (c-98-212-197-29.hsd1.il.comcast.net. [98.212.197.29]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id md6sm28233242igc.0.2012.04.08.09.17.42 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sun, 08 Apr 2012 09:17:43 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4F81BA14.6030706@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 08 Apr 2012 11:17:24 -0500 From: Joshua Isom User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0; rv:11.0) Gecko/20120327 Thunderbird/11.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: Re: Upgrade to 9.0 - Mount to root failed.. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 08 Apr 2012 16:17:44 -0000 On 4/8/2012 8:51 AM, Airosoβicz fb. wrote: > Hi Matthew, > > Thanx for the quick reply.. Can't get it to work though.. > > On 08/04/2012 09:53, Airosoβicz fb. wrote: >>> So I've upgraded from 8.1 to 9.0& now the system can't mount in single >>> user mode to go through the final step of installing the world.. >> > > >> As was mentioned else-thread, you are probably hitting problems due to >> the name change from ad(4) to ada(4) for PATA/SATA disk devices. >> > > It's starting to make sense now.. Mounting ufs:/dev/ad*a*2s1a i.o. from > ufs:/dev/ad2s1a simply doesn't work because as I've put in my original > post with # ls -l /dev/ad* it doesn't exist.. Only ad2,ad2s1& ad2s1a do.. > > >> One way to fix this is simply to type in the new boot device in the >> loader and then edit /etc/fstab from single user mode >> > > Which boot device..? I wish it was simple.. > When you get to the loader, escape to the loader prompt. Then type lsdev to see what the loader finds. You'll have to find which one looks right, and type that into the mount failed prompt. After it's done booting, check /dev to make sure it looks right and change your fstab.