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Date:      Fri, 28 Jul 2017 20:49:09 +0000
From:      Colin Percival <cperciva@tarsnap.com>
To:        =?UTF-8?Q?Peter_Ankerst=c3=a5l?= <peter@pean.org>, FreeBSD Stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Upgrade to 11.1-RELEASE fails to boot on aws EC2.
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On 07/28/17 03:41, Peter Ankerst�l wrote:
> It seems that FreeBSD 11.1-RELEASE also breaks on EC2 in some cases. I had this problem before when upgrading to 11.0. This problem was noticed in the ERRATA: https://www.freebsd.org/releases/11.0R/errata.html#open-issues
>  and later said to have been resolved with a EN: https://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-EN-16:18.loader.asc
> 
> Today I tried to upgrade a 11.0-RELEASE-p7 system to 11.1-RELEASE using the good old build world method as described in the handbook. But after reboot the machine hangs
> in the loader.

Do you know what version of FreeBSD this system was originally running?  It
may be that there are other oddities in the old partitioning which cause
problems for the newer loader code.

-- 
Colin Percival
Security Officer Emeritus, FreeBSD | The power to serve
Founder, Tarsnap | www.tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid



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