* Palle Girgensohn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [000317 19:03] wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I'm having troubles updating a FreeBSD 3-stable system to current,
since it has /usr as a vinum volume. I've just updated about a
dozen machines without any problems, but none of them uses vinum.
>
> Following the instructions in UPDATING, when rebooting to single
> user mode, vinum wouldn't work since the kernel module was out of
> date - no surprise. So, I copied a fresh vinum.ko in there and
> tried
>
> again. This time, vinum loaded fine, but complained that it
> couldn't get the list from disk (or similiar). A 'vinum list'
> command would show nothing. So, I tried rebooting with the old
> 3-stable
>
> kernel. When makeing installworld running the 3-stable kernel,
> make first installed the make binary itself, and then could not do
> anything more, since the new libc was not in place, and the just
>
> installed make needed the new libc... odd? shall it really start
> by installing make? dunno how this happened?
>
>
> Anyway, what is a good strategy for upgrading a system where /usr
> is a vinum volume? Any tips, tricks or ideas (apart from moving
> /usr to a non-vinum volume and install onto that one).
Yowch, please wrap lines at 70 characters. :)
Anyhow, if you cd to /usr/src/sys/modules/ you can build the vinum
module by typing 'make' then you can copy your 3.x modules to let's
say /modules3.x and install your new modules by just typing 'make install'
in /usr/src/sys/modules/
Read the loader page carefully and you should be able to boot 3.x
kernels with 3.x modules and 4.0 modules with a 4.0 kernel without
too much voodoo.
good luck,
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