Date: Wed, 05 May 1999 10:23:50 +0200 (CEST) From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl> To: "Marcel R. Wingate" <MWingate@cbm-wa.com> Cc: "questions@freebsd.org" <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: Upgrade Message-ID: <XFMail.990505102350.asmodai@wxs.nl> In-Reply-To: <B704930A444AD111944F00600892E8A819AC49@CBM-NT1>
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On 04-May-99 Marcel R. Wingate wrote:
> I recently tried to upgrade my system to 3.1-RELEASE from 2.2.6-RELEASE.
> I ran /stand/sysinstall and ran the Upgrade option. It said that it
> couldn't 'cd' to 2.2.6-RELEASE, so I changed the setting in the options
> screen, making it read 3.1-RELEASE. I reran the upgrade and that went
> ok. I rebooted the system and it got stuck in a loop at the 'boot:'
> prompt (it would timeout and attempt to boot automatically or I would
> hit enter and it would pop up the prompt again).
Can you boot from CD or otherwise go to the 3.1 install screen? If so, try
to install the bootblocks again since my guess is that the old bootblocks
are still present and those won't work with the ELF kernel...
Oh and btw, be ready for more fixing... I tried an upgrade from 2.2.5 to
2.2.8/STABLE and then to 3.1 and I am still trying to fix things...
Hopefully you go better...
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