Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 13:31:27 +0000 From: Filip Lenaerts <filip@freeshell.org> To: Jan Grant <Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: upgrading 5.4 -> 6.0 without reinstalling. safe ? Message-ID: <20051110133127.GA11544@SDF.LONESTAR.ORG> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.62.0511101112200.19268@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk> References: <E1EZp9T-0008i7-Kg@dilbert.firstcallgroup.co.uk> <b41c75520511090501nbef3235j@mail.gmail.com> <4372256F.2020800@kernel32.de> <op.szzszvxc8527sy@outgoing.local> <20051110090912.C33260@fledge.watson.org> <Pine.GSO.4.62.0511101112200.19268@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk>
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hi all On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 11:17:13AM +0000, Jan Grant wrote: > > FWIW I've just done a successful remote source-based upgrade from 5.4 to > 6.0 (I'm brave) with no problems. I use a second root and /usr to be also did that last night with the latest sources, but failed when booting in single user mode: i get a kernel panic when the kernel is loading the nvidia0 device. > Providing you > remember to rebuild or disable any 5.x-era kernel modules from ports > (nvidia, rtc, etc) prior to the reboot it should work fine and offers a now this is interesting :) i have a nvidia gforce 6600xl, but i can't remember installing/using the nvidia port. perhaps its installed as dependency of xorg? moreover in the sources, there is also a agp_nvidia.c. anyone perhaps knows how this relates to the ports? is it an equivalent? are they redundant to eachother? i'll try recompiling this evening the port and try a boot -s :) filip -- ---- http://filip.freeshell.org mailto:filip@freeshell.org ---- SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org
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