Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2013 07:41:39 -0600 From: Mark Felder <feld@feld.me> To: Jeroen van der Ham <jeroen@dckd.nl> Cc: freebsd-xen@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrading XENHVM 9.0 to 9.1 Message-ID: <op.wre4bpu734t2sn@markf.office.supranet.net> In-Reply-To: <C20E2886-F631-4A64-B351-3763BB8AE8A3@dckd.nl> References: <C20E2886-F631-4A64-B351-3763BB8AE8A3@dckd.nl>
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On Wed, 23 Jan 2013 15:48:29 -0600, Jeroen van der Ham <jeroen@dckd.nl> wrote: > Hi, > > Today I started with an upgrade process of my VPS which has been running > 9.0 XENHVM almost a full year. I followed the process as outlined on the > Handbook[1]. I may have made a mistake in placing back the right old > kernel, but a new GENERIC kernel did not get installed. > > I was able to boot into the 9.1 system using my old 9.0 XENHVM kernel. I > have been trying to fix this, but I keep running into problems: > > - I manually downloaded and extracted the 9.1 GENERIC kernel. Booting > from that results in a rootmount mismatch (ada0 vs ad0). Just renaming > it in /etc/fstab does not seem to be enough, what else would I need to > do? Yes, the GENERIC kernel uses adaX and the XENHVM kernel uses adX. It shouldn't be a problem to just change it in the fstab though. I've not yet had problems running 9.1 with XENHVM yet. > > - I manually built a new 9.1 XENHVM kernel. Booting from that results in > the message: "pudna: fpcurthread == curthread xx times" scrolling by. > What can I do to fix that? > I've not seen this message yet either. Can you provide more details of the Xen environment you're hosted on? > Is there a problem in continuing to run the 9.0 XENHVM kernel with the > 9.1 system? > This would not be advised. It *may* work, but be warned that you may run into strange issues.
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