On Sun, Sep 27, 2020 at 08:14:13PM +0200, Why 42? The lists account. wrote: > > I am running: > kern.version=OpenBSD 6.8-beta (GENERIC.MP) #69: Tue Sep 15 12:34:41 MDT 2020 > dera...@amd64.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC.MP > > I just tried to use sysupgrade and I notice that its behaviour has > changed a bit since my last upgrade. Previously (last six months or so) > after the download of the new sets and the reboot, I would have been > prompted as to what to do i.e. Install, Upgrade, or Shell. Then for a > keyboard layout (e.g. de) and for the name of the disk containing OpenBSD > (i.e. the system root partition) or "/").
Something is wwrong here. That is not how sysupgrade works. Probably you didn't install updated boot blocks and it has been failing to "switch to bsd.upgrade" when rebooting after the download, and your latest change installed the updated boot blocks, and now it is working. > 1. Now on the console I see (post reboot): Here you describe how sysupgrade normally works. > 2. The upgrade then proceeds, however it fails to identify the location > of the newly downloaded sets. The error is: > "The directory '/home/_sysupgrade/' does not exist." > > 3. It then seems to abort the upgrade and reboot the system. Thus > leaving me back where I started. I've never tried using a symlink to /home. Can you mount /home properly and see if that works?
