From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 10 13:32:03 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A791A16A41F for ; Thu, 10 Nov 2005 13:32:03 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from filip@sdf.lonestar.org) Received: from sdf.lonestar.org (mx.freeshell.ORG [192.94.73.21]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 49AE643D8E for ; Thu, 10 Nov 2005 13:31:50 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from filip@sdf.lonestar.org) Received: from sdf.lonestar.org (IDENT:filip@norge.freeshell.org [192.94.73.3]) by sdf.lonestar.org (8.13.1/8.12.10) with ESMTP id jAADVRBd026000; Thu, 10 Nov 2005 13:31:30 GMT Received: (from filip@localhost) by sdf.lonestar.org (8.13.1/8.12.8/Submit) id jAADVR7W028118; Thu, 10 Nov 2005 13:31:27 GMT Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 13:31:27 +0000 From: Filip Lenaerts To: Jan Grant Message-ID: <20051110133127.GA11544@SDF.LONESTAR.ORG> References: <4372256F.2020800@kernel32.de> <20051110090912.C33260@fledge.watson.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: upgrading 5.4 -> 6.0 without reinstalling. safe ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 13:32:03 -0000 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