Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 10:42:49 +0200 From: David Landgren <david@landgren.net> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: "Hmm! I couldn't move the old kernel over!" during upgrade Message-ID: <3F6EB609.8090702@landgren.net>
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Hello, I'm trying to recover a machine that failed to upgrade from 4.8 to 5.1 (the make installworld failed with a sh core dump half way through :( The restore program is hosed, so I can't restore from tape. I don't have a recent backup of /home either (it's a hardware RAID-1, so I'm slacker than I should be about backups...) so I don't want to do a fresh install. I tried to do an upgrade from the original CD I used to install it. Things go pretty smoothly, I'm able to identify the fs partitions, and select what I want to install, but after the partitions are fscked, the install spits out the message "Hmm! I couldn't move the old kernel over!" And asks if I want to reboot. On the Alt-F4 shell, I can see my partitions mounted under /mnt, and I can see the kernel and modules. I can move them around (and renamed them: kernel -> kernel.x) but still I get the same error message. Has anyone had this sort of trouble before, and if so, what's the fix? Thanks, David
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