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 [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] [http://www.theapt.org] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message