Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 14:03:46 -0800 From: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org> To: "Meyendriesch, Burkard" <Burkard.Meyendriesch@t-systems.com> Cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: AW: FreeBSD 5.3; howto migrate from i386 to amd64 mode Message-ID: <200412161403.46382.peter@wemm.org> In-Reply-To: <E08434385832C64D96F20B76FFCAC9171DBE09@S4DE8DSAAHE.krf.telekom.de> References: <E08434385832C64D96F20B76FFCAC9171DBE09@S4DE8DSAAHE.krf.telekom.de>
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On Thursday 16 December 2004 12:41 am, Meyendriesch, Burkard wrote: [..] > Peter, > > thanks a lot for your detailed instructions! I'll try thi procedure > in my holydays after Christmas. Afterwards I'll give you a feedback. > > Burkard Keep in mind that this procedure has serious foot-shooting potential. I would not recommend people try this unless the only alternative is a reinstall. If something goes wrong and you can't figure it out, you may have to do the reinstall anyway. I just wanted to reiterate that to make sure that everybody understands the situation... The difficulty is working around the catch-22 situation where you need a new kernel first so you can install world, and you need a new world first before you can boot the new kernel. Cheating and using the swap partition for a temporary world is one way around it. It might even be necessary to do a new buildworld inside the temporary world if you can't reinstall the previous one. Some creativity will be needed. -- Peter Wemm - peter@wemm.org; peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5
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