On 2023-12-07, Daniel Ouellet <dan...@presscom.net> wrote: > On 12/7/23 7:37 AM, Stuart Henderson wrote: >> On 2023-12-06, Daniel Ouellet <dan...@presscom.net> wrote: >>>>> Any suggestion woudl be greattly appreciated. >>>> >>>> Old boot loaders cannot boot 7.4 kernels. >>>> Upgrade your 6.7 system to 7.3 first (the usual advice to avoid >>>> skipping releases during upgrades applies). Then upgrade to 7.4. >> >> Specifically the interface used for communicating system >> console information between the boot loader and the kernel was changed. >> There was backwards compat but sadly it was removed after one single >> release. >> >> I think this brings the total number of people I know who have been >> affected by this up to 6 now. >> >>> I didn't care what's on it now. All fresh install will do. >>> I have 22 to do. :( >> >> You can copy a new bootloader to the old machines and run installboot. > > Hi Stuart, > > Just to be clear and to help others here. > > You are talking about these two files only right? > > /usr/mdec/boot > /usr/sbin/installboot > > or should this one below be included too? I don't think it's needed, but > just want to be sure and make the info complete. > > /usr/mdec/biosboot
Assuming standard partition table not GPT: /usr/mdec/boot and /usr/mdec/biosboot. *Not* /usr/sbin/installboot, the new binary is unlikely to run on new OS.
