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Date:      Thu, 10 Nov 2005 13:31:27 +0000
From:      Filip Lenaerts <filip@freeshell.org>
To:        Jan Grant <Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk>
Cc:        stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: upgrading 5.4 -> 6.0 without reinstalling. safe ?
Message-ID:  <20051110133127.GA11544@SDF.LONESTAR.ORG>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.62.0511101112200.19268@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk>
References:  <E1EZp9T-0008i7-Kg@dilbert.firstcallgroup.co.uk> <b41c75520511090501nbef3235j@mail.gmail.com> <4372256F.2020800@kernel32.de> <op.szzszvxc8527sy@outgoing.local> <20051110090912.C33260@fledge.watson.org> <Pine.GSO.4.62.0511101112200.19268@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk>

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hi all

On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 11:17:13AM +0000, Jan Grant wrote:
> 
> FWIW I've just done a successful remote source-based upgrade from 5.4 to 
> 6.0 (I'm brave) with no problems. I use a second root and /usr to be 

also did that last night with the latest sources, but failed when booting in single user mode:  i get a kernel panic when the kernel is loading the nvidia0 device.  

> Providing you 
> remember to rebuild or disable any 5.x-era kernel modules from ports 
> (nvidia, rtc, etc) prior to the reboot it should work fine and offers a 

now this is interesting :)

i have a nvidia gforce 6600xl, but i can't remember installing/using the nvidia port.  perhaps its installed as dependency of xorg?

moreover in the sources, there is also a agp_nvidia.c.  anyone perhaps knows how this relates to the ports?  is it an equivalent?  are they redundant to eachother?

i'll try recompiling this evening the port and try a boot -s :)

filip

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