Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2015 17:46:26 +0800 From: Erich Dollansky <erichsfreebsdlist@alogt.com> To: Chris Maness <chris@chrismaness.com> Cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrading Issues Message-ID: <20150329174626.0b99086f@B85M-HD3-0.alogt.com> In-Reply-To: <CANnsUMG2b2%2BAeEiFekFZZNFbz=Uh9DLQLmQERdakxUVmeTi%2BYg@mail.gmail.com> References: <CANnsUMG2b2%2BAeEiFekFZZNFbz=Uh9DLQLmQERdakxUVmeTi%2BYg@mail.gmail.com>
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Hi, On Sat, 28 Mar 2015 10:50:20 -0700 Chris Maness <chris@chrismaness.com> wrote: > I was able to migrate my version 10.0 from i386 to my current AMD64 > without any problems. I was just running it as a i386 and all was > good. However, I am having a really bad time trying to upgrade to > 10.1. I was not able to get it to finish compiling, so I used a donor > system and compiled the system and kernel then moved both src and obj > over to the AMD64 box. The kernel installed, but after that first > reboot the BTX loader halted with what looks like the mem location of > a crash on the screen. > > I am in a world of hurt as I am down, and have no certain way to get > this thing running again. I could just build from scratch as all my > files are backed up, but I have had a form of this same system for 15 > years, and I don't want to give up. > > Any suggestions? > could t be that your boot loader believes it boots a i386 system? Allow me to suggest what I normally do. I have all my media bootable. I take one of these, start it - via USB or plugged into the machine - and compile the system locally and install it then. As I also use labels for my devices, I did not run into problems with this method. Erich
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