From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 28 10:28:06 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 42AF516A41F for ; Mon, 28 Nov 2005 10:28:06 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from laurent.bar@gmail.com) Received: from zproxy.gmail.com (zproxy.gmail.com [64.233.162.192]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A5B9F43D49 for ; Mon, 28 Nov 2005 10:28:05 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from laurent.bar@gmail.com) Received: by zproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 8so844698nzo for ; Mon, 28 Nov 2005 02:28:04 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=TbYKTlnL+Jw3BylhBRmvdRY5Byyixbp1ipAHcSkrTOrJb7irFVazDwD/kGrqTAPEniqImHZMTNVud+1Vj6/oZq4vmEC3/RAfYG7+YIK7oplXSK2y02gC5qPOlJpS1TFAIXXBVbSk/QmffJ1em1+NAz/w1vkHyxWi7HWB4rrdzG8= Received: by 10.36.57.12 with SMTP id f12mr3344937nza; Mon, 28 Nov 2005 02:28:04 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.36.222.61 with HTTP; Mon, 28 Nov 2005 02:28:04 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 11:28:04 +0100 From: Laurent C To: yraffah@savola.com In-Reply-To: <1133010454.824.9.camel@RedDevil.savola.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <1133010454.824.9.camel@RedDevil.savola.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrading Question 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: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 10:28:06 -0000 2005/11/26, Yousef Raffah : > > 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