On Tue, 5 Aug 2003 12:52:17 +0100, Frank Luedke wrote
> On Tue, 5 Aug 2003 10:49:03 +0200, Ignatios Souvatzis wrote
> 
> > >   I've downloaded the CDs and am now trying to upgrade
> > >  from 1.6 to 1.6.1 but the upgrade system does not want
> > >  to... 
> > > 
> > >   I have two partitions; /dev/wd0a as / and /dev/wd0e as /usr.
> > >  The upgrade system starts to check the partitions which seems
> > >  to be OK (i am answering "mark filesystem as clean" with Y as
> > >  there are no errors detected) but then it says 
> > >  "unable to mount /" and stops.
> > 
> > I've seen this problem, too. Workaround: go the shell, unmount everything
> > that was on /mnt/... , fsck those to partitions, then _reboot_ into the
> > install system to upgrade.
> > 
> > Somehow, sysinst gets confused when it had to really fsck the fs to upgrade.
> 
>   I started the install system from CD (I mean I booted the CD). I
>  already looked in the shell but when I look nothing is mounted
>  under /mnt.
> 
>   So I will try this today:
> 
>   boot from CD, update, wait 'till the error occurs, jump to shell,
>  fsck /dev/wd0a and /dev/wd0e, then reboot and see if this solves the
>  problem :)

  Fascinating. It worked - but only after the 3rd try. Before that always
 the same procedure - filecheck, error in mount, aborted. I rebooted always,
 the 3rd time run without the filesystem check and without any problems.

  Strange thing, but now it working without any problems.

.fl

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