Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2002 06:26:40 -0700 From: Peter Hessler <phessler@theapt.org> To: Nate Lawson <nate@root.org> Cc: david@catwhisker.org, current@FreeBSD.ORG, sziszi@bsd.hu Subject: Re: Weirdness trying -STABLE -> -CURRENT Message-ID: <20020815062640.274c341f.phessler@theapt.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0208142122140.38889-100000@root.org> References: <200208150332.g7F3WC8r011504@bunrab.catwhisker.org> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0208142122140.38889-100000@root.org>
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On Wed, 14 Aug 2002 21:31:35 -0700 (PDT) Nate Lawson wrote:
:I upgraded a machine from 4.6R to -CURRENT today and had similar
:problems. Comments below.
:
I upgraded from 4.5R to -CURRENT last night, and had /no/ issues.
:On Wed, 14 Aug 2002, David Wolfskill wrote:
:> To upgrade from 4.x-stable to current
:> -------------------------------------
:> make buildworld
:> make buildkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE
:> cp src/sys/${MACHINE_ARCH}/conf/GENERIC.hints /boot/device.hints [2]
:> make installkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE
:>
:> No problem up to here.
:
:Same.
:
Ditto
:> reboot in single user [3]
:>
:> OK; here we have a fundamental problem, illustrated by the following
:> commands I issued just after the "make installkernel":
:>
:> freebeast(4.6-S)[3] grep '^kernel' /boot/defaults/loader.conf
:> kernel="/kernel"
:> kernel_options=""
:> freebeast(4.6-S)[4]
:>
:> The clue that I had was reviewing the transcript, and when I did the
:> single-user boot, the system identified itself as 4.6-STABLE.
:
:This happened to me too. Perhaps the instructions should say to unload
:kernel; load /boot/kernel/kernel on reboot or maybe explicitly copy in the
:new /boot/defaults/loader.conf like you do with device.hints?
:
"unload kernel; load /boot/kernel/kernel; boot -s" brought up 5-CURRENT.
/snip errors that I didn't get and problems I didn't experiance/
fsck -p
mount -u /
mount -a
cd /usr/src
make installworld #Note the lack of option '-k'
mergemaster
Everything went perfect (well, except my hands hurting from pressing 'i'
and [enter] about 7 bajillion times. ;-)
So possibly, the only thing that needs to be added to UPDATING is
the recommendation to do the unload/load dance?
--
Peter Hessler [phessler@theapt.org]
[http://www.theapt.org]
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