Hi, I paste this link where Colin Percival explain who to use the tool freebsd-update with custom kernel. But I think that same thing as been written in the handbook. http://forums.freebsd.org/showpost.php?p=30920&postcount=9
--- En date de : Jeu 26.11.09, S4mmael <s4mm...@gmail.com> a écrit : > De: S4mmael <s4mm...@gmail.com> > Objet: freebsd-update with MYKERNEL kernel configuration > À: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Date: Jeudi 26 Novembre 2009, 13h32 > Hi all! > > I've got a problem while upgrading FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE-p3 > -> FreeBSD > 8.0-RELESE with freebsd-update(8). > > First of all I made a copy of the most configuration files. > Then I made: > # freebsd-update -r 8.0-RELEASE upgrade > All went good, except the message, that because of MYKERNEL > kernel > configuration I should upgrade my kernel before > "freebsd-upgrade > install". Then I was looking for the way of kernel upgrade, > but found > nothing. How could I build 8.0 kernel in FreeBSD 7.2? Of > course, there > were 7.2 sources in /usr/src and I didn't find any sources > in > /var/db/freebsd-update/. It's the first my question. > > Thus I decided to upgrade all except the kernel and then > rebuild the > kernel (that worked good while upgrading 7.1 -> 7.2). I > made as > mentioned in hanbook: > # freebsd-upgrade install > # shutdown -r now > # freebsd-upgrade install > There were many errors "bad sistem call" on th last > command. After all > I discovered that much files from / were lost (I didn't > find any grep, > bzcat and so on). On boot kernel can't find fsck_ufs, so > automatic > mounting fails. If mounted by hand, there is no way to > login because > of some init error. Single user mode works. "freebsd-update > roolback" > can't find any backup. Shell scripts can't find "test" (it > really > doesn't exists in /bin/[ ) and fails. > > How can I restore the system? I've FreeBSD 7.1 CD. > > Thank's in advance for your help. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" > _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"