On 5 May 2010 18:55, Polytropon <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, 5 May 2010 17:17:09 +0100, krad <[email protected]> wrote: > > I updated a production box at work last night from freebsd 6.2 to > 8-stable, > > via 7-stable. The upgrade went ok just a minor glitch in jumping from 7 > to > > 8. Basically all the device names changed from mfid0s1[a-g] to > mfid0[a-g]. I > > presume this is because the initial layout was in dangerously dedicated > > mode. > > That's strange. "Dangerously" dedicated partitioning omits the > slicing part, so if you had mfid0s1[a-g] in 6 and 7, there was > a slice. Maybe the mfi driver is different in 8 in terms of > representing the disks? > > > > > Two issues here why did the naming scheme seem to indicate a more > > normal MBR disk layout in bsd 6 and 7. > > Very strange - if you can check booting from a live system CD > or DVD with FreeBSD 6 and 7, and the disks are mfid0s1[a-g], > and if you boot into FreeBSD 8, the disks are mfid0[a-g], that's > really strange... > > I agree, but it definitely happened, as i did the upgrade remotely. Luckily the data center was only a mile or so away from my home, so it wasn't a major disaster to console it, point the kernel at the correct device and tweak fstab. COst me an hour more sleep than it had to though 8(
I have another box to do in the next day or so. Is there anything you recommend me looking at/running? Hopefully this box will have a drac card in it 8) > > > > Second what is the current status of > > dangerously dedicated in 8-stable as i thought support was being dropped. > > The support has been removed from sysinstall. You can't create > dedicated partitions (without slice) with sysinstall, but you > can create them manually (e. g. using bsdlabel and newfs). So > support isn't dropped at all - dedicated disks just is a new > special secret feature. :-) > > > This was the bit i was worried about, as i didnt want to get caught out in the future when I want to upgrade again > > -- > Polytropon > Magdeburg, Germany > Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 > Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... > _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
