From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Nov 26 13:08:06 2005 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 DAADD16A41F for ; Sat, 26 Nov 2005 13:08:06 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from yraffah@savola.com) Received: from Heathrow.savoladns.com (heathrow.savoladns.com [212.100.209.91]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 31A6043D62 for ; Sat, 26 Nov 2005 13:07:52 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from yraffah@savola.com) Received: (qmail 3398 invoked from network); 26 Nov 2005 16:07:48 +0300 Received: from unknown (HELO ocs.savola.com) (172.31.12.10) by 172.31.12.2 with SMTP; 26 Nov 2005 16:07:48 +0300 Received: from 222.22.1.191 by ocs.savola.com with ESMTP id 28847031133009865; Sat, 26 Nov 2005 15:57:45 +0300 From: Yousef Raffah To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-6GeHTfOLdeA3c6LbfYXH" Organization: The Savola Group Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2005 16:07:34 +0300 Message-Id: <1133010454.824.9.camel@RedDevil.savola.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.4.1 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Subject: Upgrading Question X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: yraffah@savola.com List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2005 13:08:07 -0000 --=-6GeHTfOLdeA3c6LbfYXH Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hello Everyone, I just thought of upgrading from FreeBSD 6 BETA5 to 6-STABLE so I followed the http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/makeworld.html manual page. I reached to a point where I had to reboot into single user mode to continue with make installworld and mergemaster but I wasn't able to boot into single user mode. The machine was hanging saying: Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/ad0s2a I tried and tried and kept on trying with no luck, I disable some modules during kernel bootup and unset some variables but no luck! Anyhow, one of the guys on IRC told me to build a GENERIC kernel to at least boot so I built it but it panicked! My only way to boot my system now is going to the loader prompt and boot /boot/kernel.old/kernel No here comes my question, by booting this way, can I still create a new GENERIC kernel in order to upgrade my system? I would really appreciate your advice --=-6GeHTfOLdeA3c6LbfYXH Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBDiF4W9KbelRb+qmwRAt7zAJ9lMwkh3xcEn5z9NPOozwq2C8HLagCgxbTk RFPY0tloFJkmTGtQWyR2UhI= =tNYT -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-6GeHTfOLdeA3c6LbfYXH--