Re: Sysupgrade failing on a system without MBR/GPT (disklabel directly on disk)

On 6/11/26 15:13, Nick Holland wrote:

...
> you built a broken system.

It was built a long time ago by somebody else.
I was just been assigned the task of upgrading it.

This particular server used to be OpenBSD on a SPARC physical machine,
which was later migrated to x86_64 VM. Probably the image of its original
disk was just mounted under VM, and x86_64 OS version installed over it.
In that way, data and configuration files stayed in place.


> well...you can do a manual upgrade, and push your problem down the road a bit.
> 
> But...your system was built incorrectly.  You need to rebuild it.  Better to
> do it on your schedule, rather than in a panic when it breaks worse.
> 
> It actually surprises me it works at all.  But what you have is a totally
> unsupported configuration; it isn't something that is tested for, it isn't
> something that may work at all in future releases.
> 
> Nick.

Thank you for your insight. The clean install is definitely the best way to go.


Best regards,

Ž.