From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Wed Aug 16 14:58:03 2017 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D0C8DDE0936 for ; Wed, 16 Aug 2017 14:58:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kurt.buff@gmail.com) Received: from mail-it0-x235.google.com (mail-it0-x235.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4001:c0b::235]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 9CB881B45 for ; Wed, 16 Aug 2017 14:58:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kurt.buff@gmail.com) Received: by mail-it0-x235.google.com with SMTP id m34so18330437iti.1 for ; Wed, 16 Aug 2017 07:58:03 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20161025; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to; bh=39x/I2yrLdA9LlBe8ScvXP6A8zDiiaA8riIOhHKhM7A=; b=lHy7t6sXSqZiENyJwre0qdDfN1z4bgW7XU4Pa5YxMCCzXwizYAzGipOLFOqbSQF9kC wms0lIrPq33aDqp5aHgquKFA+JC4Wg6KxfJMR6WT01InNoL47FbZlISiMoVkOepOiQFc QY891+tycLppKEFSCFNBifHIwzisw1JL2oCpfSjf7illznFO+UNn04pVDyCwm32xgU9q jRIWxT/dFIbHWLgjXTcRZv/awf4euJc/jqh465tjKwHQsQDDGl5BjnpqgEVYU/ooZYVm P7oN9jdHWTmw0OkmhdH8TojlBK/Uvd9ORdqgpkVGHwp1TcE9fBO7LURUmTH9rutyNze1 OuAw== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date :message-id:subject:to; bh=39x/I2yrLdA9LlBe8ScvXP6A8zDiiaA8riIOhHKhM7A=; b=lRZ4OfEHizc2km9IvLLbwRRXC9eQA0c3AHoMxu3TlISJAZ0+rJOmvob4AipqSUGOlE hIiA+1JqpIwHO3NeBk4o0IX2dTrCWZEfNvzXUpqMnZIH8O48Moat9Ngja5y7Y07PFd60 kbAKa/wjbE/oM8NzI5b6xN+BsoknvuA35bl+pMQWl0wENZf+lwiUSnOszCHS6cSW+0vD NiGse0PAWK34jin1d52ERZPtvTcAQQtVhzrejdEvyCCAS0jgzo1gim25JlSnigsw0mII PavvP2DxQDCW558F1BhMo5OUPBG2HHxAQ4/K1YntD8APT7oHWgXieetlnodim1JhW5Qq DJ3A== X-Gm-Message-State: AHYfb5j2bOo+gZUvNAn9vxN9aGMLZWlFYAmI/dvNc0lUkkcLJ3V5VVAI +4SdfZ+kCtrHXs1DyDZYEPGbgjkvsQ== X-Received: by 10.36.230.129 with SMTP id e123mr2061692ith.170.1502895482732; Wed, 16 Aug 2017 07:58:02 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.79.150.135 with HTTP; Wed, 16 Aug 2017 07:58:02 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20170816092641.038c1860.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <20170816092641.038c1860.freebsd@edvax.de> From: Kurt Buff Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2017 07:58:02 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: FUBAR on an upgrade - need some help To: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2017 14:58:03 -0000 On Wed, Aug 16, 2017 at 12:26 AM, Polytropon wrote: > On Tue, 15 Aug 2017 19:29:23 -0700, Kurt Buff wrote: >> I have an old Acer AspireOne netbook that's been running 10.1-RELEASE. >> >> Yesterday I upgraded it using freebsd-update to 10.2 and then to 10.3, >> and it went fine. >> >> Then I upgraded it to 11.0-RELEASE, and it failed during boot, saying >> it wanted to boot from ad4s1a, but couldn't find it. >> >> I have managed to get it into single user, and have run "df-h" and >> "gpart show", which don't agree at all. Output: >> >> # df -h >> Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on >> /dev/ad4s1a 140G 36G 93G 28% / >> devfs 1.0k 1.0k 0B 100% /dev >> >> #gpart show >> => 63 312581745 ada0 MBR (149GB) >> 63 312581745 1 freebsd [active] (149GB >> >> => 0 312581745 ada0s1 BSD (149GB) >> 0 8388608 2 freebsd-swap (4.0GB) >> 8388608 304193137 1 freebsd-ufs (145GB) >> >> # cat /etc/fstab >> # Device Mountpoint FStype Options Dump Pass# >> /dev/ad4s1b none swap sw 0 0 >> /dev/ad4s1a / ufs rw >> 1 1 > > The OS now has associated /dev/ada0 to the device formerly known > as /dev/ad4, so the root partition needs to be adjusted in /etc/fstab > from /dev/ad4s1a to /dev/ada0s1a. > > When in single-user mode, do this: > > # mount -w / > > so you can write to /, then use > > # vi /etc/fstab > > or > > # ee /etc/fstab > > to make the required changes (for the swap partition as well). > > Finally reboot. > > > >> I can't seem to use vi to modify fstab. > > This is because the system leaves / mounted read-only when booting > into single-user mode (and it does not mount anything than /, so if > you have /usr on a different file system, you need to mount that > as well). Excellent. I've done this, and now find that wireless isn't working - it seems that it's detecting the NIC (ath0), but something has changed, so now I'll do some research on that. Many thanks. Kurt