From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Sep 26 14:21:36 2002 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 6DE4337B401 for ; Thu, 26 Sep 2002 14:21:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rutger.owt.com (rutger.owt.com [204.118.6.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E825043E42 for ; Thu, 26 Sep 2002 14:21:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kstewart@owt.com) Received: from owt.com (owt-207-41-94-232.owt.com [207.41.94.232]) by rutger.owt.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA13967; Thu, 26 Sep 2002 14:21:30 -0700 Message-ID: <3D937A5A.9000008@owt.com> Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 14:21:30 -0700 From: Kent Stewart User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 X-Accept-Language: en-us, es-mx MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Gheorghe Ardelean Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: installworld broken when upgradeing from 4.0R to RELENG_4_6 References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Gheorghe Ardelean wrote: > Hi, > > I was upgrading from 4.0R to RELENG_4_6 and encountered some problems. > Both buildworld and buildkernel worked fine but when I did installworld > this failed just after the installation of /bin/test command with the > message > ELF type binary not known... > > As a work around I made > sysctl -w kern.fallback_elf_brand= FreeBSD > (on my 4.0R this sysctl was none) > > Now the remaining old binaries (4.0R) appear as SVR4 (type 0). > > Have I done something wrong or missed some steps? > I have noticed there is nothing about this in UPDATING. Did you take a shortcut and try to do your installworld before you booted to single user mode on the new kernel. That may not fix your problem but people won't worry about it until you have done it in the proper order. Kent > > Best Regards, > > Gh. Ardelean. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > > . > -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message