Lot of salsa in your post..
Never heard about about a "wd" prefix for a disk in any of my machine. Did you try sd0, eventually? Lots of stick upgrades ago I encoutered in two subsequent upgrades with the same root disk problem you quoted. I can't be sure if the installation just hanged on the free space or other abnormal conditions of the stick. My solution in both the cases was to copymachine the stick to an external disk, install on that and copymachine back to the stick. The trick always succeeded and all the people, mainly the host, lived happy for the rest of the next six months. Nov 6, 2025 23:53:42 Luke A. Call <[email protected]>: > Hi. I am upgrading my test (& backup) laptop from 7.7 to 7.8, and > running sysupgrade rebooted it, but after I entered the FDE key, it > checks hardware or something for a bit then I think I see "panic" > flash on the screen, and it reboots, even from single-user > mode. Unfortunately that doesn't let me provide a dmesg. It is an > old dell inspiron. > > So I tried running upgrade from a CD with cd78.iso on it. After the > prompt to choose a keyboard, it asks which disk is the root disk. > Typing "?" for details says "wd0: ....", which I believe is correct, but > entering wd0 at the prompt gives "wd0 is not a valid root disk", or for > other variations besides wd0, it says "no such disk"). > > I can see the dmesg if I boot from the CD, but there is no > network connection so I'm not sure how to provide it. I was unable to > ftp it to another host since there is no network. > > Update: if I enter the FDE key, then press ^C when it says "Welcome to > the OpenBSD/amd64 7.8 installation program." then I can get a shell. If > I let it proceed (exiting from that shell, or booting without ^C), then > the panic or reboot seems to happen immediately after "Checking root > filesystem..." which is followed by "Mounting root filesystem", then the > screen flashes and it reboots & re-prompts for the FDE key. > > Suggestions? If I need to use a shell and move files, I'd benefit from > the syntax for the mount command/s in this case. > > Thanks very much. > > Luke Call > lukecall.net
