misc/121503: 7.0 upgrade doesn't let me mount all of my partitions

Tim Newsham newsham at lava.net
Sat Mar 8 20:20:03 UTC 2008


>Number:         121503
>Category:       misc
>Synopsis:       7.0 upgrade doesn't let me mount all of my partitions
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sat Mar 08 20:20:02 UTC 2008
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Tim Newsham
>Release:        6.2, trying to upgrade to 7.0
>Organization:
>Environment:
FreeBSD hpsux.x0d99.com 6.2-STABLE FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE #1: Fri Aug  3 18:39:42 HST 2007     root at hpsux.x0d99.com:/usr/src/sys/amd64/compile/THENEWSH  amd64

>Description:
I have an amd64 freebsd machine running 6.2.  I booted the 7.0 release installer cdrom (disk 1).  I chose the upgrade option.  During the upgrade process it asks me to select which partitions to mount by way of the disklabel editor.  When in the editor it does not show me all of the partitions for my disk.  The full disk label is:

# /dev/ad4s1:
8 partitions:
#        size   offset    fstype   [fsize bsize bps/cpg]
  a:  1048576        0    4.2BSD     2048 16384     8
  b:  7799776  1048576      swap
  c: 625137282        0    unused        0     0         # "raw" part, don't edit
  d:  5996544  8848352    4.2BSD     2048 16384 28528
  e:  1048576 14844896    4.2BSD     2048 16384     8
  f: 609243810 15893472    4.2BSD     2048 16384 28528

but in the interactive disklabel editor, the f slice doesn't show up.  If I mount /, /var and /tmp (from a,d and e) it runs a holographic shell on vty4.  In this shell I am able to manually mount /usr from f.  So it's not a matter of disk label incompatibilities between 6.2 and 7.0.
As a result I aborted the install process and am waiting for a resolution before upgrading.



>How-To-Repeat:
Duplicate my partition table, boot the amd 7.0 release disk 1, select upgrade, select packages.  The installer will place you in the disk label editor.
>Fix:
None.

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>Audit-Trail:
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