Thursday, October 29, 2020

Re: syspatch -> no partition found ; any simple fix?

On Thu, Oct 29, 2020 at 8:42 PM Amelia A Lewis <amyzing@talsever.com> wrote:

> Heylas,
>
> So, I ran 6.8 syspatch (patches 002 and 003 together) for three systems
> today (yesterday by the time anyone sees this, most likely). Two came
> right back up as expected. The third didn't, but as it's local, I could
>
> .....

Or if it is entirely impossible that "No active partition" could be the
> result of kernel relinking borkage, and it's obvious to someone that
> something else (hardware failure showing up on a reboot?) happened, I'd
> welcome clues. Thanks.
>

If you were just running syspatch I'd be worried that a hardware failure
showed up on reboot. I'm way out of practice for troubleshooting OpenBSD
but booting the installer from a USB drive or CD, dropping to a shell and
checking your disk info will answer the hardware question for you.

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