Re: updating direct from 5 to 9?

2022-08-20 Thread Christopher Pinnock
There is a change of file system superblock format between 7 and 8 iirc which may need some attention. (Previously I have managed to build.sh 9.2 on a 6.1 machine.) C > On 20 Aug 2022, at 13:39, Valery Ushakov wrote: > > On Sat, Aug 20, 2022 at 11:15:34 -0400, Greg Troxel wrote: > >> I am

Re: updating direct from 5 to 9?

2022-08-20 Thread Valery Ushakov
On Sat, Aug 20, 2022 at 11:15:34 -0400, Greg Troxel wrote: > I am helping someone update an i386 system from 5 to 9, which is on > the net but without console (remote hands possible but really want > to avoid that). You can install netbsd 5 under qemu or vbox and to do a test-drive upgrade to 9 :

updating direct from 5 to 9?

2022-08-20 Thread Greg Troxel
I am helping someone update an i386 system from 5 to 9, which is on the net but without console (remote hands possible but really want to avoid that). Normally I update systems by cp -p /netbsd /netbsd.ok # save kernel that worked put new kernel in /netbsd reboot # now running new kernel a

Re: [SUCCESS partial] Disabling framebuffer at boot time

2022-08-20 Thread tlaronde
Le Thu, Aug 18, 2022 at 07:52:14PM +, RVP a écrit : > On Thu, 18 Aug 2022, tlaro...@polynum.com wrote: > > > But the NetBSD kernel does not even crash (since I use the "boot once" > > feature, > > > The 9.2 GENERIC kernel does not boot on the machine. I compiled a customized 9.3 kernel dis