Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 08:37:42 +0200 From: Manolis Kiagias <sonicy@otenet.gr> To: Zbigniew Szalbot <zszalbot@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: going from 6.2 to 6.3 and custom kernel Message-ID: <47943DB6.7070301@otenet.gr> In-Reply-To: <94136a2c0801202225r47f424a7gfc3f3fbebffc9403@mail.gmail.com> References: <94136a2c0801181417w395f7532w4761fc76388ed60@mail.gmail.com> <47912AE1.6000603@otenet.gr> <94136a2c0801190114u46f872eas8f6afd5e52dd73b1@mail.gmail.com> <4791C177.6030304@otenet.gr> <94136a2c0801202225r47f424a7gfc3f3fbebffc9403@mail.gmail.com>
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Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: > Hello, > > >>>> It will not update your kernel, but if you do freebsd-update install you >>>> will get an updated GENERIC kernel in /boot/GENERIC. >>>> >>>> This is what I did: >>>> >>>> freebsd-update -r 6.3-RELEASE upgrade >>>> >>>> (got the warning you mentioned) >>>> >>>> freebsd-update install >>>> >>>> Got a message about installing kernel updates. Got a new generic kernel >>>> in /boot/GENERIC (check to see this exists!) >>>> > > Yes, on the other machine there is no /boot/GENERIC > So what do I do (I followed the steps you described). > > # locate GENERIC > /usr/src/sys/alpha/conf/GENERIC > /usr/src/sys/alpha/conf/GENERIC.hints > /usr/src/sys/amd64/conf/GENERIC > /usr/src/sys/amd64/conf/GENERIC.hints > /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/GENERIC > /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/GENERIC.hints > /usr/src/sys/ia64/conf/GENERIC > /usr/src/sys/ia64/conf/GENERIC.hints > /usr/src/sys/pc98/conf/GENERIC > /usr/src/sys/pc98/conf/GENERIC.hints > /usr/src/sys/powerpc/conf/GENERIC > /usr/src/sys/powerpc/conf/GENERIC.hints > /usr/src/sys/sparc64/conf/GENERIC > /usr/src/sys/sparc64/conf/GENERIC.hints > > > Thanks! > > Zbigniew Szalbot > > So, you actually run freebsd-update install? Running just the freebsd-update -r 6.3-RELEASE upgrade part will not install anything. You will have to run freebsd-update install, it will complain about not running a GENERIC kernel and install the new one in /boot/GENERIC. Although in my case I believe I already had a /boot/GENERIC kernel, and I think this was created by standard freebsd-update (i.e. when going from a -p# to another -p# while in 6.2) Could you please send the output of uname -a and ls -la /boot
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