Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2003 10:31:45 +0300 From: Odhiambo Washington <wash@wananchi.com> To: wade <wade@wavefire.com> Cc: FBSD-STABLE <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: 4.7-5.0 upgrade woes. Message-ID: <20030109073145.GA37848@ns2.wananchi.com> In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.20030108163721.01fea580@mail.wavefire.com> References: <3.0.32.20030108163721.01fea580@mail.wavefire.com>
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* wade <wade@wavefire.com> [20030109 03:44]: wrote:
> How did you make out with the error:
> /usr/obj/usr/src/bin/sh/sh -c 'echo "Testing installed kernel for new
> sigaction(2) syscall"'
> Bad system call (core dumped)
>
> I got to that point, but had little luck with UPGRADING or the other
> comments in the -STABLE list.
>
> Thanx in advance for any input you offer.
> -Wade
Hello Wade,
I have just managed to reboot into 5.0-CURRENT a few minutes back.
Not that I have enough hair to pull off my head nor because I any
sharp but I installed 5.0-CURRENT because FreeBSD is my chosen OS
and so I need to try and keep up with the pace and because I'm told
5.0-RELEASE would be damn fast. I am not any competent to comment
on the bleeding edge. Anyway, those aside, the procedure I followed,
is documented in UPDATING, but I kind of discovered that some step is
missing, and that is why I was getting stuck. Here is how I did it:
1. <make sure you have good level 0 dumps>
2. <maybe fix /etc/fstab> # Mine was okay as in 4.7
3. make buildworld -DNO_WERROR
4. make buildkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE -DNO_WERROR
5. cp src/sys/${MACHINE}/conf/GENERIC.hints /boot/device.hints
6. make installkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE
7. cd src/sys/boot ; make install
8. <reboot in single user>
Here you should boot the kernel in /boot/kernel/kernel. This is a
VERY IMPORTANT step, else installworld will complain about the
kernel. So before booting to single user mode, do unload kernel &&
load /boot/kernel/kernel && boot -s, then
fsck -p
mount -u /
mount -a
adkerntz -i
cd /usr/src/usr.sbin/mergemaster && make install
9. mergemaster -p
rm -rf /usr/include/g++
make installworld
mergemaster
<reboot>
Hope that helps.
-Wash
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