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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!chi-news.cic.net!newsxfer2.itd.umich.edu!gatech!usceast!usenet From: Kevin Brown <kbrown@cs.sc.edu> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: File system upgrade failure Date: Wed, 14 Feb 1996 02:55:06 -0800 Organization: University of South Carolina Lines: 33 Message-ID: <3121BF8A.41C67EA6@cs.sc.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: mingus.cs.sc.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0 (X11; I; BSD/386 uname failed) When upgrading my p90 NetBSD 1.0 system to 1.1, my file system was trashed. Specifically, I have 1 IDE disk with DOS on the first partition and NetBSD 1.0 on the second. My fstab looks like this: /dev/wd0a / ufs rw 1 1 /dev/wd0b none swap sw /dev/wd0e /usr ufs rw 1 2 /dev/wd0f /dos msdos rw 1 2 I'm using the kcadp11.fs boot disk and the upgrade disk. (I have no SCSI devices so any boot image should work). After booting and inserting the upgrade disk, one of the first questions asked is whether you want to upgrade your file systems. The install notes said this was only necessary for pre-1.0 systems but it seemed like I might as well do it now anyway. (This is from memory so it is a little fuzzy) I got a message saying the root partition had been successfully upgraded but then it looked like it tried to do it again? (to rwd0a). At this point, I got a message. "Bus Error - try running fsck and try again" I tried running the new fsck and the old and they would both say that nothing was wrong with the root partition. But if I tried to boot up again, either from the hard drive (1.0 kernel) or from the 1.1 boot floppy, neither one could access the root partition (or the /usr partition for that matter). I tried the upgrade procedure several more times and it always failed the same way. Does anyone know what's going on here? I had to install from scratch and it was a big pain. Plus, I need to upgrade another similar system and I'd rather not go through this again. What am I doing wrong? Thanks in advance for any help, Kevin