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From: Kevin Brown <kbrown@cs.sc.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: File system upgrade failure
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 1996 02:55:06 -0800
Organization: University of South Carolina
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When upgrading my p90 NetBSD 1.0 system to 1.1, my file system was
trashed.  Specifically, I have 1 IDE disk with DOS on the first
partition and NetBSD 1.0 on the second.  My fstab looks like this:
/dev/wd0a / ufs rw 1 1
/dev/wd0b none swap sw
/dev/wd0e /usr ufs rw 1 2
/dev/wd0f /dos msdos rw 1 2

I'm using the kcadp11.fs boot disk and the upgrade disk.  (I have no
SCSI devices so any boot image should work).  After booting and
inserting the upgrade disk, one of the first questions asked is whether
you want to upgrade your file systems.  The install notes said this was
only necessary for pre-1.0 systems but it seemed like I might as well do
it now anyway.
(This is from memory so it is a little fuzzy)
I got a message saying the root partition had been successfully upgraded
but then it looked like it tried to do it again? (to rwd0a).
At this point, I got a message.
"Bus Error - try running fsck and try again"

I tried running the new fsck and the old and they would both say that
nothing was wrong with the root partition.  But if I tried to boot up
again, either from the hard drive (1.0 kernel) or from the 1.1 boot
floppy, neither one could access the root partition (or the /usr
partition for that matter).  I tried the upgrade procedure several more
times and it always failed the same way.

Does anyone know what's going on here?  I had to install from scratch
and it was a big pain.  Plus, I need to upgrade another similar system
and I'd rather not go through this again.  What am I doing wrong?

Thanks in advance for any help,
Kevin