From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 22 6:49: 3 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E122137B401 for ; Fri, 22 Nov 2002 06:49:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from rwcrmhc52.attbi.com (rwcrmhc52.attbi.com [216.148.227.88]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 92A6C43EAA for ; Fri, 22 Nov 2002 06:49:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from paulbeard@mac.com) Received: from mac.com ([12.231.115.57]) by rwcrmhc52.attbi.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20021122144851.ZAOB1052.rwcrmhc52.attbi.com@mac.com>; Fri, 22 Nov 2002 14:48:51 +0000 Message-ID: <3DDE43CF.2030403@mac.com> Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2002 06:48:47 -0800 From: paul beard User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021116 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ben Turner , questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problem with the upgrade and now I need to rollback.. =/ References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ben Turner wrote: > Ok well I attempted the upgrade on a remote machine from 4.6 to > 5.0 and it > failed, miserably. Before it failed, it was throwing a message > across the > screen as to the location where it backed up the existing > kernel. Does > anyone, by chance, know the default location and filename for > the kernel > backup? > I may be off here, but mine always end up as kernel.old and kernel.GENERIC, both in / > > > Also, if anyone has a link on the rollback procedure on a > FreeBSD kernel > (4.6) that would be greatly appreciated also. My searches on > FreeBSD.org and > google haven't turned up much. Mostly mysql documents which I > find a little > hard to believe that mysql has that much higher ranking pages > then the > FreeBSD site. that's understandable: rollback is a database operation and is likely to generate lots of pages, for reasons not dissimilar to yours. -- Paul Beard / 8040 27th Ave NE / Seattle WA 98115 / paulbeard [at] mac [ dot] com / 206 529 8400 weblog @ Howe's Law: Everyone has a scheme that will not work. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message