From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 15 09:15:21 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-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 19A9E16A420 for ; Wed, 15 Feb 2006 09:15:21 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from olli@lurza.secnetix.de) Received: from lurza.secnetix.de (lurza.secnetix.de [83.120.8.8]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B3F943D49 for ; Wed, 15 Feb 2006 09:15:20 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from olli@lurza.secnetix.de) Received: from lurza.secnetix.de (zohwns@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lurza.secnetix.de (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k1F9FDiZ011715 for ; Wed, 15 Feb 2006 10:15:18 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from oliver.fromme@secnetix.de) Received: (from olli@localhost) by lurza.secnetix.de (8.13.4/8.13.1/Submit) id k1F9FDLD011714; Wed, 15 Feb 2006 10:15:13 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from olli) Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 10:15:13 +0100 (CET) Message-Id: <200602150915.k1F9FDLD011714@lurza.secnetix.de> From: Oliver Fromme To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <20060214193639.GB99387@xor.obsecurity.org> X-Newsgroups: list.freebsd-stable User-Agent: tin/1.8.0-20051224 ("Ronay") (UNIX) (FreeBSD/4.11-STABLE (i386)) X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-2.1.2 (lurza.secnetix.de [127.0.0.1]); Wed, 15 Feb 2006 10:15:18 +0100 (CET) Cc: Subject: Re: BETA1 announcement X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 09:15:21 -0000 Kris Kennaway wrote: > Oliver Fromme wrote: > > I tried loading a 6.1-BETA1 kernel (the default GENERIC > > kernel from the BETA1 distribution) on a system with > > the /boot directory (including /boot/loader) from a 4.x > > installation. To be exact, it's 4.9-RELEASE. > > > > It didn't work. The kernel didn't even print the copyright > > line or anything else, it just hung. Is that expected > > behaviour? > > Yes, I think so. > > One problem is that the hints will be missing, so you won't get a > console. Ah, I forgot about the hints file and that it is required for console. Thanks for pointing that out. > If you compiled them into your kernel you might have had > better luck, but it's still not supported. Well, I didn't compile anything. I just took the install kernel from the BETA1 distributiin (which is compiled from GENERIC, I assume). Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing Dienstleistungen mit Schwerpunkt FreeBSD: http://www.secnetix.de/bsd Any opinions expressed in this message may be personal to the author and may not necessarily reflect the opinions of secnetix in any way. "With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine. However, this is not necessarily a good idea. It is hard to be sure where they are going to land, and it could be dangerous sitting under them as they fly overhead." -- RFC 1925