Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2001 11:38:43 +1000 From: Stanley Hopcroft <Stanley.Hopcroft@IPAustralia.gov.au> To: Questions@FreeBSD.ORg Subject: How to upgrade from 3.2-RELEASE to 4.3-RELEASE (or recovering from failed upgrade) Message-ID: <20011022113842.A590@IPAustralia.Gov.AU>
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Dear Ladies and Gentlemen, Please would you help me recover from a failed upgrade of 3.2-RELEASE to 4.3-RELEASE ? The situation is a Gateway 366 Solo 9000 laptop with 3.2-RELEASE using 'wd' major devices. The sysinstall upgrade failed at the last point (when trying to copy the new kernel) because the root partition (32MB H) did not have enough size. Since then I have manually booted kernel.GENERIC (from 4.3-R which was copied) and have a booting system (sym linking /modules and /tmp to /usr has made enough space in / for both kernel and kernel.GENERIC) However. . the machine now, while having upgraded from the CD, no longer recognises the CD, despite the device driver probe finding acd0 and - until recently - allowing cd9660 mounts on /dev/acd0c. . if I try and change the kernel definition from ata atadisk atapicd atapifd to only ata or ata0 and ata1 the kernel will no longer boot because it can't find the root partion on /dev/ad0 (in the booting system /etc/fstab has wd0s2 entries - dual boot machine) So at the moment I have no CD and therefore it is difficult to even think of reinstalling or running upgrade again (apart from using NFS). Is there anyway I can correct the CD problem ? Thank you, Yours sincerely -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Stanley Hopcroft IP Australia Network Specialist +61 2 6283 3189 +61 2 6281 1353 (FAX) Stanley.Hopcroft@IPAustralia.Gov.AU ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. -- John F. Kennedy To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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