Subject: Re: pmax / NetBSD 1.5.2 to 1.6 upgrade problem
To: Hilmar =?iso-8859-1?Q?B=F6hm?= <Hilmar.Boehm@hiro-consult.de>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
List: port-pmax
Date: 12/19/2002 16:40:16
On Thu, Dec 19, 2002 at 01:44:32PM +0100, Hilmar Böhm wrote:
> Hi, Manuel!
> Hi, everyone!
> 
> I'm booting from the DS5K iso-cd into the memyroy resident installation
> environment. At this time there is no /etc/fstab used (at least that I know
> of).

No, but when you upgrade it'll mount the root partition and parse the
fstab it finds here.

> 
> Btw.:I have the same effect with another pmax (5K50).
> 
> Under 1.5.2 I used the _rz_ style SCSI devices/device names. 1.6 uses the
> new _sd_ style device names (MI SCSI?). I suspect the the correspondig SCSI
> drivers are not compatible. Is that correct?

OK, so I know what's happening: sysinst is parsing your 1.5.x fstab,
which contains rz* devices. But the only disks it knows about are sd*
(because now the system probes disks as sd not rz), and it doens't
handle this case.
As a workaround, you can edit your fstab to change rz to sd before rebooting
on cd.

> 
> Has anyone else _upgraded_ from 1.5.x to 1.6 instead of installing 1.6 from
> scratch?

Either nobody did test upgrade on pmax, or he did the fstab hack.

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