From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 3 12:40:42 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 2E33555E for ; Mon, 3 Feb 2014 12:40:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from nm24-vm2.access.bullet.mail.gq1.yahoo.com (nm24-vm2.access.bullet.mail.gq1.yahoo.com [216.39.63.52]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id F1378142A for ; Mon, 3 Feb 2014 12:40:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [216.39.60.169] by nm24.access.bullet.mail.gq1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 03 Feb 2014 12:40:34 -0000 Received: from [67.195.23.147] by tm5.access.bullet.mail.gq1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 03 Feb 2014 12:40:34 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] by smtp119.sbc.mail.gq1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 03 Feb 2014 12:40:34 -0000 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=bellsouth.net; s=s1024; t=1391431234; bh=56DUxQbtKqeGEFZ3C6j/tKslJ9YDoKKZz+ty7md8ZVE=; h=X-Yahoo-Newman-Id:Message-ID:Date:X-Yahoo-Newman-Property:X-YMail-OSG:X-Yahoo-SMTP:X-Rocket-Received:From:To:References:Subject; b=IIlPBV3QoMwE8LgOH/u4WB9GuHLGUiHgpUNg0zQfRSiOA4ltXu1GcyDSIv+3GDp9N6yaq65NLmW5pOj9ICOsegwOTyLhmZEnRzcAu0oME9YHwah5E8XNqH9CFnv5dNEw1N95O2p4/iFchTbiJFXxT4yG2a2dY2T4kPcbgoYQwbU= X-Yahoo-Newman-Id: 64791.5198.bm@smtp119.sbc.mail.gq1.yahoo.com Message-ID: <64791.5198.bm@smtp119.sbc.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2014 12:40:34 +0000 (UTC) X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 X-YMail-OSG: lVmjqv4VM1lWdOI4JxzGjCoqZPnv2noWzKnd.CBC0XEya6l Vy7fsBipMZWgQo6U67iJyU_EjxdXxDbyCk7Waip_VHVmRgyU_vdULUk1BDz8 DzS07dzUd0_ty0PLI9ymK9yp23CWndn.KXb6KGF2vdIgXyb4gH2pcy8FC1NR fiFbJdHUcYk6L7QB6EK_3LvcU.hj23tm8XvNgpQlRrubgjiqZHnbiL4JB4WV h0cTZQfs4RFP2AEY3DIvpQETzmDyvUPxQ1qqBYVtDZDIBvLhExFW3YMWs3fL 1kOlRtphJmIMmJi33reUFcYqY8V5e34.aGJUKurHSyhCzyrcWGjAmdaB4_Yg .38Fndq8_kg.8gJGYcL4NozFhhEGfQbFWMyrpTd9SvnQcDfcQmW1f_Jnvv9E dYLBHV3_zF1pMV7r5KU3D5uzi27Qxgnq8nZ2.Awz96FE26eueKChYIr5LFlX JafFyawEggEnzQ1FiHhx7E0FzRCVu80wbnhq0wbiY3aMDmxinJ0NSa.Zd9VY V_YTmMP3udEZx44ic42nLp8InvNvVQN59ABCrntply5WdyyJxRjHhIfdbrId KtVFb5BUNvaZ_v_FU6YU- X-Yahoo-SMTP: Kz_aW1.swBBYof3zAD7.RWzXz9ZAQVDMml1VADsbgPT4Kq79LC0- X-Rocket-Received: from localhost (mueller6724@96.28.178.143 with plain [67.195.15.66]) by smtp119.sbc.mail.gq1.yahoo.com with SMTP; 03 Feb 2014 12:40:34 +0000 UTC From: "Thomas Mueller" To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org References: Subject: Re: The best approach to upgrade to freebsd 10 ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 03 Feb 2014 12:40:42 -0000 > A few days ago I did the (freebsd-update) upgrade of my VPS. I've been > using FreeBSD since 4.8 and been running various releases and doing > upgrades since then. This last upgrade (9.2-->10.0) was probably the worst, > though I accept the blame for not reading /usr/src/UPDATING carefully. Here > are the problems I ran into: > 1) unable to boot after first stage of upgrade with "mounting ufs... error > 19". This is explained in UPDATING entry 20110424 - basically, disk device > names have been changed and the system was not able to find boot partition > ad0s1a as it was renamed to ada0s1a. This is an old entry, but there were > symbolic links to old device names throughout 9.x enabling the old > configuration to work which I guess was removed on 20130404 ("Legacy ATA > stack... completely removed from sources"). > 2) network not working. I can't find this exactly in the UPDATING notes, > but there was a lot of talk on Xen-related changes so I guess it was not > much of a surprise. My NIC was renamed from re0 to xn0 hosing the > ifconfig_re0 entries in rc.conf and ipfw "via" rules. > 3) not actually a problem per se, but building a custom kernel with > IPFIREWALL_FORWARD option I was using before failed with "unknown option". > Again, this is in UPDATING entry 20121102 - option removed, functionality > enabled by default. Finally! > So take care if you share any of the above. 1) and 2) are especially > problematic if you are running upgrade remotely. > Regards, -- > Nino You mention re0 being renamed to xn0. I couldn't find any device xn or xn0 in FreeBSD 11-current, though I found xe and xen. I figured if it were in 10-STABLE, it would also be in 11-HEAD. For a moment, I thought maybe the reason why I couldn't connect Ethernet on MSI Z77 MPOWER motherboard was needing to use a driver other than re, but nothing so simple. There is still device re. Did you make a typo with xn0? I also wonder if the best way to upgrade to FreeBSD 10 is to jump to 11-HEAD, am seriously considering that. Tom