Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2009 09:31:48 -0700 From: "Brian Duke" <brian@box201.com> To: "'Brooks Davis'" <brooks@freebsd.org> Cc: FreeBSD-stable@freebsd.org Subject: RE: cvsup freebsd 6_2 to freebsd 7_1 not upgrading? Message-ID: <024201c9701c$572c3540$05849fc0$@com> In-Reply-To: <20090105223216.GE11721@lor.one-eyed-alien.net> References: <32085272.968201231189478546.JavaMail.root@wmail9.libero.it> <010e01c96f82$252875d0$6f796170$@com> <20090105223216.GE11721@lor.one-eyed-alien.net>
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This is very odd. I got desperate last night and steeled myself for a reinstall. Copied all the known keeper files to an alternate drive including /home, /etc, /usr/local/etc and a couple others. It's on a completely separate drive with no OS just files on it. I downloaded what I thought was 7.1 iso and burned the image to disks from my spare windows machine. I sure of it as I made a point to upgrade to 7.1 I stuck in the install disk and rebooted. I didn't mess with fdisk left it the same. Used disk druid to set the mount points like they were before and toggle newfs to Yes. I watched the install perform a newfs on the mount points. As it was loading the new kernel and support files I kept seeing snippets saying file for FreeBSD 7.0 loaded. I figured there were legacy files being added and let it continue. The install disks loaded everything with success. The congratulation screen popped up and set the final options. I got to the reboot and it warned me to take out the disk before rebooting. While booting I saw right after choosing normal boot it said proudly "FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE". My question is this, after a system boots from the CD, performs a newfs, loads everything in /usr perfectly as all my /home directories are gone and /root is empty. How can a kernel continue to exist? I'm done with newfs as that seems to have no effect. I'm going to fdisk the system now and seriously mess with the MBR. But just before I do, anyone have any idea how install disks doing a standard install do not overwrite the kernel? Agrapha...
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