From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Mar 19 20:39:22 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A813016A420 for ; Sun, 19 Mar 2006 20:39:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mhjacks@swbell.net) Received: from smtp114.sbc.mail.mud.yahoo.com (smtp114.sbc.mail.mud.yahoo.com [68.142.198.213]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 21B1B43D46 for ; Sun, 19 Mar 2006 20:39:22 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mhjacks@swbell.net) Received: (qmail 32142 invoked from network); 19 Mar 2006 20:39:21 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO anduril.minas.tirith) (mhjacks@swbell.net@65.67.72.193 with login) by smtp114.sbc.mail.mud.yahoo.com with SMTP; 19 Mar 2006 20:39:21 -0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by anduril.minas.tirith (Postfix) with ESMTP id 636D32E05D for ; Sun, 19 Mar 2006 14:39:20 -0600 (CST) Received: from anduril.minas.tirith ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (anduril.minas.tirith [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 10462-08 for ; Sun, 19 Mar 2006 14:39:19 -0600 (CST) Received: from [192.168.2.102] (arwen.minas.tirith [192.168.2.102]) by anduril.minas.tirith (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4CB842E058 for ; Sun, 19 Mar 2006 14:39:19 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <441DC164.5060703@swbell.net> Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2006 14:39:00 -0600 From: Martin Jackson User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (Windows/20051201) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at minas.tirith Subject: 6.1-BETA4 installation report X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2006 20:39:22 -0000 Greetings, First of all, thanks for all the hard work that's gone into the 6.1 release process so far. Today, I tried doing a binary upgrade of 6.1-PRERELEASE (cvsup'ed about a week ago) to 6.1-BETA4. It's really old hardware, a PII 333Mhz. I don't know if what I tried to do is even supported, so I haven't filed any PR's yet. I ran into two issues: 1) The upgrade errored out almost immediately on /var/empty, since it had been chflags'ed to nschg. I went to the shell and chflags'ed that off, and upgrade continued. 2) The 'kernels' distribution wasn't installed at all, which led loader to complain upon reboot. I had an old kernel installed, so I booted from that and used sysinstall to install GENERIC. I also had to change loader.conf to reference 'kernel="GENERIC"'. Is this the preferred way to do it, or should I move 'GENERIC' to 'kernel'? thanks, Marty