mountroot prompt after 8.3 - 9.1 GUI upgrade

[tefoster]

This system has been working for a while on 8.3. I've been experiencing some performance issues and I decided to upgrade to 9.1. I did a GUI upgrade and now I'm stuck at the mountroot prompt. I have ZERO *nix experience and I don't know what to do!

When I type a "?" I get something like: gptid/[big-long-bunch-of-numbers] 16 times followed by da7p2 da7p1 da6p2 da6p1 da5p2 da5p1 da4p2 da4p1 da3p2 da3p1 da2p2 da2p1 da1p2 da1p1 da0p2 da0p1 ada0p1 da7 da6 da5 da4 da3 da2 da1 da0 ada0 cd0

The box has 8 WD 2T red drives (raid-z2) along with a 750GB swap drive. The OS is on a 4GB USB stick. At one time I replaced all the drives one by one with the current red drives, I suspect that is why gptid/[big-long-bunch-of-numbers]is listed 16 times instead of 8.

The array has years worth of family movies and photos and I am afraid to do anything that might lose them. How can I get this operational again?

 

[dlavigne]

Have you followed the instructions in http://doc.freenas.org/index.php/Upgrading_FreeNAS#If_Something_Goes_Wrong ?

 

[tefoster]

dlavigne,

Thanks for the link, I didn't solve the upgrade issue yet but I was able to get the 8.3 back up and running.

Thanks!

 

[tac12345]

did you tried to save your config before upgrading ?

if yes, just reflash your usb key with freenas 8.3.1, and reupload your config.

 

[tefoster]

tac12345,

Yes, I did save the config first. I mean no disrespect but I don't see the point in reflashing and uploading the config since it is working at 8.3. I'm reluctant to do anything at this time until I have a better understanding of what state the system is in.

Your feedback is much appreciated!

 

[tac12345]

I have the same problem that you have. I'm pushing the devs for a fix in this bug report here : https://bugs.freenas.org/issues/2369

you can follow this. But devs are quiet lately on it.

 

[Dusan]

[USER]tefoster[/USER], which hardware are you using (motherboard)? There were many reports lately about mountroot problems with boards supporting USB3 when upgrading to FN 9.x. Switching off USB3.0/xHCI in the BIOS and/or moving the USB stick to an USB2 port helped in some of the cases.