From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 16 06:37:57 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F1C2616A4CE for ; Sun, 16 Nov 2003 06:37:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from lakemtao04.cox.net (lakemtao04.cox.net [68.1.17.241]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD38F43FE1 for ; Sun, 16 Nov 2003 06:37:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from srenna@vdbmusic.com) Received: from mars ([68.100.200.113]) by lakemtao04.cox.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.05 201-253-122-130-105-20030824) with ESMTP id <20031116143755.MKFZ19895.lakemtao04.cox.net@mars> for ; Sun, 16 Nov 2003 09:37:55 -0500 From: "Scott Renna" To: Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2003 09:37:56 -0500 Message-ID: <000001c3ac4f$39fe5930$0201a8c0@mars> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.4024 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 Importance: Normal Subject: I broke 5.0 while attempting upgrade to 5.1 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2003 14:37:58 -0000 Hello Everyone, First off, I wanna say thanks to all the help this list has provided and continues to provide. With every new failure comes help from one of you and then I learn and can contribute to others as well. So here's what's going on now... I attempted an upgrade from 5.0 to 5.1(I've heard upgrade is rough at times). Whenever trying to perform this upgrade I get weird kernel panics(this is when I choose to upgrade my src as well). So I gave it a shot without upgrading source and it tells me /mnt is full(I believe this is not the true /mnt, but rather the backup directories it uses to preserve existing files). So now I'm SOL and cannot boot. I have a dd image of my drive as well as dumps of each partition(for once I did this..thank god). The problem I'm running into is how the heck can I restore the entire drive with dd or restore. I know the commands to use, however, I need something to boot to. Here's the thing. I have the FreeBSD5.0 Disc 2 and I can start a shell when going into the Fixit option..however, from here I'm kind of lost. Is there a HOWTO on how to use CD2 out there for common functionality? I am unable to even mount /dev/ad0s1..... Any help out there? Scott