From owner-freebsd-current Mon Dec 23 5:29:30 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA76237B401 for ; Mon, 23 Dec 2002 05:29:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from mailsrv.otenet.gr (mailsrv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7302C43EDE for ; Mon, 23 Dec 2002 05:29:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from gothmog.gr (patr530-a098.otenet.gr [212.205.215.98]) by mailsrv.otenet.gr (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gBNDTK8G004116; Mon, 23 Dec 2002 15:29:23 +0200 (EET) Received: from gothmog.gr (gothmog [127.0.0.1]) by gothmog.gr (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gBNDTI1B001467; Mon, 23 Dec 2002 15:29:18 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (from giorgos@localhost) by gothmog.gr (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id gBNDCogS000758; Mon, 23 Dec 2002 15:12:50 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2002 15:12:50 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: walt Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problem upgrading to -current Message-ID: <20021223131250.GA644@gothmog.gr> References: <3E0664B6.8060306@hotmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3E0664B6.8060306@hotmail.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 2002-12-22 17:19, walt wrote: >Martin Hasenbein wrote: >> I've tried to upgrade to -current a few minutes ago. Before >> upgrading I had FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE-p2 >> >> After a "make buildworld / make buildkernel /make installkernel" >> and rebooting, I still have FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE-p2 > > Sounds like you are rebooting with the old kernel in the / directory > instead of the new kernel which is now in the /boot/kernel > directory. > > If you interrupt the boot loader by hitting SPACE, you can then type > 'unload' and then 'load /boot/kernel/kernel' then 'boot' which will > boot the new kernel. > > I've never done the upgrade path, so I'm not sure how you are > supposed to avoid this problem. Maybe you are doing things in the > wrong sequence or skipping steps? By editing /boot/loader.conf before rebooting and changing `bootfile' to the new location of the kernel: bootfile="/boot/kernel/kernel" you can instruct the loader to load the new kernel by default. Perhaps we should add this to the instructions of UPDATING for upgrades of 4.X to 5.X :-/ - Giorgos To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message