Re: Disk devices changed after upgrade to current

Matt Smith wrote:
> I have just upgraded my system from 7.2 to 8.0 using a source based
> upgrade. After rebooting it for the first time the server unfortunately
> failed to come back up. I had a look at the console and found that it was
> failing to find the root device and prompting me for it. By manually
> entering it I managed to boot the server and could then see the problem.
>
> In the 7.2 fstab my root partition and swap space were ad4s1a and ad4s1b
> but after booting the 8.0 kernel these seem to have changed to ad4a and
> ad4b so I set the new names in the fstab and it's now working fine. I read
> through the UPDATING file before I did this but I couldn't see any warnings
> that this may occur. The only entry that's possibly relevant is 20090320
> talking about GEOM_PART.
>   
If you check June'09 archives, you'll find out that there already was a 
question about this, coming from a person with FreeBSD installed on a 
dangerously dedicated disk.
Are you sure you aren't using a DDD (a drive that has no DOS/GPT 
partition tables, just the bsdlabel)?

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Kamigishi Rei