won't boot after 8.0-RELEASE upgrade

[Ivo Karabojkov]

I have no problems with the hardware. In fact neither Release notes nor
UPDATING says anything about my possible (and actually occured) problems.
The only thing is: 
“dangerously dedicated” mode for the UFS file system is no longer supported.
I never supposed that I'm using this mode. I format disks and install with
sysinstall without any special tuning for fdisk or disklabel. I prefer
standard options to ensure smooth future upgrades. So I'd like to know how
to distinguish mode of my current filesystems - is it standard or
dangerously dedicated?


Ruben de Groot wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 08:40:52AM -0800, Ivo Karabojkov typed:
>> 
>> I'm sharing this experience to bring your attention to major advice in
>> the
>> update procedure - to take full backup.
> 
> While not very new, that's allways good advice ;)
> 
>> My question is: how can I guess the result - "Glory" or "Sorrow" BEFORE
>> starting the update?
> 
> Before starting: read the relnotes and errata and search for possible
> problems, especially with your particular hardware.
> 
> Then, if you decide to go ahead, install the new kernel and try to boot it
> in single user mode. This won't destroy anything and if you experience
> problems
> like missing devices you can easily back out by booting kernel.old.
> 
> Ruben
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