From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 18 17:46:55 2000 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 18 17:46:52 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from 2711.dynacom.net (2711.dynacom.net [206.107.213.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 37C8137B402 for ; Mon, 18 Dec 2000 17:46:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from urx.com (dsl1-160.dynacom.net [206.159.132.160]) by 2711.dynacom.net (Build 101 8.9.3/NT-8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA00004; Mon, 18 Dec 2000 17:46:41 -0800 Message-ID: <3A3EBE01.5A1D1E71@urx.com> Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 17:46:41 -0800 From: Kent Stewart Reply-To: kstewart@urx.com Organization: Dynacom X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Paul Wolstenholme Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Botched 3.3->4.2 upgrade References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Paul Wolstenholme wrote: > > During an attempted upgrade, I did not have enough disk space on / and the > upgrade failed. > > I have tried to boot into single user mode using the old kernel: > load kernel.prev > boot -s > > but I cannot seem to mount the / in write mode. If I try: mount -u / I get > the following error: > > mount: Block device required > > I know that 4.0 no longer uses block devices. So, how do I mount / after > this failed install so I can make the required adjustments. Depending on where your / slice is, you can try something like mount /dev/ad0s1a / It depends on how far in to /usr/src/UPDATING you followed when you did the upgrade. It is also available on http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/. You have to choose the one for RELENG_4 branch, if you don't have a copy that you can look at right now. Kent > > Thanks, > Paul > > -- > ______________________________________________________________________ > Paul Wolstenholme Centre for Policy Research on S&T > (p)604.291.5169 Simon Fraser University > (f)604.291.5165 > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kbstew99@hotmail.com http://kstewart.urx.com/kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message