Re: no boot after upgrade

On Tue, Jun 16, 2026 at 09:11:13AM -0400, Nick Holland wrote:
> On 6/15/26 20:51, Zbigniew Kossowski wrote:
> > Device: HP 2 small servers (Atheon CPU)
> 
> that doesn't narrow it down sufficiently, unfortunately.
> 
> > As usual from some 30 releases I have upgraded manualy 7.8 to 7.9
> 
> manually -- what process did you use for that?
> Why did you not use the automatic upgrade process?
> 
> I suspect the problem comes from the answers here.
> 
> > After reboot it is UNUSUAL INCONSISTENCY of swap (sd4b) and / (sd4a)
> > and advice to RUN fsck MANUALY.
> 
> you need to elaborate on this...  Swap should not need an fsck -- it's
> just storage space, it isn't a file system.
> 
> So (as usual), we need to see exactly what you are doing and what message
> you are getting when you do it.
> 
> > fsck_ffs doesn't work because disks are not configured
> 
> Again -- show exactly what you are doing and exactly the error message you
> are getting.
> 
> fsck is in /bin, which should be part of your root file system, so if the
> system tries to boot at all, you should have fsck available.
> 
> Failing that, boot from bsd.rd and run fsck from there.
> 
> > fdisk doesn't work because it is lack of /usr/mdec/mbr - only / partition accesible, not /usr
> 
> No idea what you are doing with fdisk -- but I'd suggest don't.
> 
> > 
> > Dmesg looks ok, softraid0 created. I cannot send dmesg because cannot copy form device.
> 
> Softraid?  That's an added complication which you should elaborate on.
> 

There was a big change to the device nodes for disk drives as a prep step
to support more partitions. So if you did not rerun MAKEDEV the sd4 minor
numbers are off and nothing works.

-- 
:wq Claudio