From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 16 22:41:23 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 697D337B401 for ; Thu, 16 Jan 2003 22:41:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from home.crc.co.za (home.crc.co.za [196.36.165.34]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8EDE543F13 for ; Thu, 16 Jan 2003 22:41:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from doron@home.crc.co.za) Received: (from root@localhost) by home.crc.co.za (8.12.6/8.12.6) id h0H6ekM9030722; Fri, 17 Jan 2003 08:40:46 +0200 (SAST) (envelope-from doron@home.crc.co.za) Received: from dman ([192.168.1.8]) by home.crc.co.za (8.12.6/8.12.6) with SMTP id h0H6dJiT030695; Fri, 17 Jan 2003 08:40:37 +0200 (SAST) (envelope-from doron@home.crc.co.za) Message-ID: <023e01c2bdf3$51a70c80$0801a8c0@dman> From: "Doron Shmaryahu" To: "Mike Meyer" Cc: "FreeBSD-questions" References: <021201c2bdba$19a55eb0$0801a8c0@dman> <15911.27647.869579.944435@guru.mired.org> Subject: Re: Make World Steps Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 08:39:32 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 X-scanner: scanned by Inflex 1.0.12.3 - (http://pldaniels.com/inflex/) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, I boot the system by manually loading the kernel. I have used the upgrade procedure at least 20 times with no problems. Can anyone suggest a route to go that would redo the upgrade ?? thanks Doron ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Meyer" To: "Doron Shmaryahu" Cc: "FreeBSD-questions" Sent: Friday, January 17, 2003 4:35 AM Subject: Re: Make World Steps > In <021201c2bdba$19a55eb0$0801a8c0@dman>, Doron Shmaryahu typed: > This sequence > > > make buildworld; > > make buildkernel KERNCONF=KERNEL > > make installkernel KERNCONF=KERNEL > > mergemaster -p > > make installworld > > mergemaster > > reboot > > leaves out the very important step of doing a reboot between the make > installkernel and the make installworld. You've just found out > why. Your new kernel isn't booting for some reason. If you had found > that out before doing the installworld, backing out the kernel would > be trivial and you'd have your old system back to work on the problems > presented by the new kernel. > > The one thing that isn't clear from your messages is what the kernels > you have rebuilt are doing. If they are going to "btx halted", then > try building a kernel with debugging built in, and follow the steps in > the writeup on freebsd.org for debugging kernel problems with kdb. > > If your new kernels are booting fine but ps and top are failing, then > you're managing to boot without going through the full boot loader > sequence, as that loads the kernel module and sets some symbols. I > don't think this is the case, but if it is, how are you booting the > system? > > -- > Mike Meyer http://www.mired.org/consulting.html > Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message