Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 11:28:04 +0100 From: Laurent C <laurent.bar@gmail.com> To: yraffah@savola.com Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrading Question Message-ID: <e92de5ef0511280228v759bf750x@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <1133010454.824.9.camel@RedDevil.savola.com> References: <1133010454.824.9.camel@RedDevil.savola.com>
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2005/11/26, Yousef Raffah <yraffah@savola.com>: > > Hello Everyone, Hello, 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 Did the prompt ask you to enter a shell path after this message ? If yes, you can try to press "Enter" then type mount -a, and your slices in /etc/fstab will be mounted, letting you continue in single user. That's a thing I had when upgrading from 5.4 to 6-stable 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 I think that if you can (almost) boot with your old kernel, you must keep it, and try to add some drivers on it. -- Laurent
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