From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 22 01:42:34 2003 Return-Path: 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 9FF1716A4B3 for ; Mon, 22 Sep 2003 01:42:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sferics.mongueurs.net (sferics.mongueurs.net [81.80.147.197]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB24943FDF for ; Mon, 22 Sep 2003 01:42:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from david@landgren.net) Received: from landgren.net (81-80-147-206.bpinet.com [81.80.147.206]) by sferics.mongueurs.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 98B90A9C8 for ; Mon, 22 Sep 2003 10:42:32 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <3F6EB609.8090702@landgren.net> Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 10:42:49 +0200 From: David Landgren Organization: A thousand golden eyes are watching User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5a) Gecko/20030718 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: "Hmm! I couldn't move the old kernel over!" during upgrade X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 08:42:34 -0000 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