Date: Sun, 8 Aug 2004 05:43:53 +0300 From: Ion-Mihai Tetcu <itetcu@apropo.ro> To: "R. W." <list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> Cc: Peter <peter@aboutsupport.com> Subject: Re: I did something stupid ? Message-ID: <20040808054353.487fa531@it.buh.tecnik93.com> In-Reply-To: <200408080255.16436.list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> References: <41155C95.2090709@aboutsupport.com> <200408080255.16436.list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com>
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[ top-posting detected ;-( -- it's hard to read -- content reordered logically] On Sun, 8 Aug 2004 02:55:16 +0100 "R. W." <list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> wrote: > On Saturday 07 August 2004 23:49, Peter wrote: > > I have succesfully update my freebsd 5.2.1 using cvssup > > supfile-standard. A month after that I decied to update again and put > > "tag=RELENG_5_2" whc is osme sort of downgrade I think .. > > I made build world succesfully, but when I tried to make build kernel > > I got config: Error: device "ixgb" is unknown and more erro I do not > > remeber. It was strane since I have not edited the kernel config file It is possible to happen, since devices can change (e.g. disappear or change their names like the pcm has changed to sound in -CURRENT). Without the specific output is hard to tell. > > ?! However I commeted the both trouble device I though useles: RAID > > controller and some intel 100/10Gb card. > > Which turns to be a misatke since I could not connect to that server > > any more. I sent request to the host to boot it with GENERIC kernel. > > Aany advice is welcome :-) The proper upgrade procedure is described both in handbook and in /usr/src/UPDATING. To be short: make buildworld make buildkernel KERNCONF=you_kernel make installkernel KERNCONF=you_kernel <reboot> mergemaster -p make installworld mergemaster It seems you haven't done that. > Sound like what you actually did was upgrade to FreeBSD-CURRENT > which is bleeding edge (and probably closer to 5.3 than 5.21), and then > downgraded to 5.2.1. No, the OP has cvsup to the security branch for 5.2.1.R > If you couldn't build the kernel then you shouldn't actually have > installed anything yet. In that case I would leave it and see if you > can get back on track with 5.3-RELEASE (subject to anyone more > knowledgable answering). > > I don't really see why you would be having trouble booting, unless you > installed something, out of sequence. Have you tried booting the > previous kernel? This part what I don't understand either. -- IOnut Unregistered ;) FreeBSD "user"
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