DragonFly 4.2.1 released

Matthias Play matthias_play at gmx.net
Fri Jul 3 02:37:16 PDT 2015


Be sure you have initrd.img.gz in /boot/kernel and /boot is on an UFS 
formatted partition. If not, try regenerating it with "mkinitrd -b bootdir".

Regards,
Matthias

On 02.07.2015 23:12, Curtis Gagliardi wrote:
> I just went through this process upgrading from 4.2.0 to 4.2.1 and now
> I'm getting errors with mounting the filesystem.
>
> A potential key piece of info is that I'm dual booting with debian,
> which is the first OS on the disk and has an encrypted lvm group.
>
> I'm seeing dm_target_[error/zero/crypt]: successfully initialized and
> then an attempt to mount "ufs:msdos0"
> with an error about there being so such disk.
>
> Full errors here:
> http://i.imgur.com/QFxfOHt.jpg
>
> Anyone know what's going wrong, or how I can start going about debugging
> this?  My initial guess is that it's trying to mount my debian
> partition.  I used the ? command to list the disk devices, and tried
> each one by running "hammer:<device>", but they all failed.
>
> Thanks,
> Curtis
>
> On Wed, Jul 1, 2015, at 06:31 PM, Justin Sherrill wrote:
>> Yep, it's a 0.0.1 release, to fix a bug in i915 support.  If you
>> aren't running an Intel chipset, there's no urgent need to update.
>> You do not have to be at 4.2.0 to update to 4.2.1; for all intents and
>> purposes, 4.2.1 can be treated the same as 4.2.0.
>>
>> I've uploaded the new images and they should be showing up on mirrors
>> shortly.
>>
>> For those already running DragonFly, the same update methods as before
>> apply:
>>
>>> cd /usr/src
>>> git fetch origin
>>> git branch DragonFly_RELEASE_4_2 origin/DragonFly_RELEASE_4_2
>>> git checkout DragonFly_RELEASE_4_2
>>> git pull
>>
>> And then rebuild:
>>
>>> make buildworld
>>> make buildkernel
>>> make installkernel
>>> make installworld
>>> make upgrade
>>
>> Any existing 4.2 packages you have installed are completely compatible.
>



More information about the Users mailing list