Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2024 18:01:06 -0800 From: Brian <brian@sonicboom.org> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to upgrade an EOL FreeBSD release or how to make it working again Message-ID: <dabf1daf-bd60-4260-868d-e2ffecfef984@sonicboom.org> In-Reply-To: <CA%2B1FSij2=eHK%2BvZV%2B=cd0Y4cSXk6qzRvh2%2B-qQmgaa4jifUHEg@mail.gmail.com> References: <CA%2B1FSihU4WJWbbD9k9th4GXvyAKTL3URic-BAFUY7Og=wLn27A@mail.gmail.com> <CA%2B1FSijuLK7hoj3w4L4bpCYTno1yrpCbFnTG_oUDhKF9oenEtw@mail.gmail.com> <CA%2B1FSij2=eHK%2BvZV%2B=cd0Y4cSXk6qzRvh2%2B-qQmgaa4jifUHEg@mail.gmail.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] Once in the past I had a years out of date version. Before the GIT transition, I wound up catching up by just going to the latest stable version. IIRC I went from like 6-stable to 10-stable but one version at a time instead of making a big leap. Brian On 1/23/2024 7:31 AM, Mario Marietto wrote: > Now I tried to compile the kernel for armv7 taking the source code of > FreeBSD 13.0 and using FreeBSD 11.4 as os to compile it and I've got > an error that's similar to the previous one : > > cc: error : linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see > invocation) > /mnt/ada0p2/usr/src/11.04-os/13.0-world-kernel-armv7 # make > TARGET_ARCH=armv7 KERNCONF=CHROMEBOOK-SNOW buildkernel > > /tmp/hack-a5888be-o: file not recognized: file format not recognized > cc : error : linker command failed with exit 1 (use -v to see invocation) > > On Tue, Jan 23, 2024 at 4:07 PM Mario Marietto > <marietto2008@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hello. > > I tried to compile the kernel for armv7 taking the source code of > FreeBSD 12.04 and using FreeBSD 11.4 as os to compile it and I've > got this error : > > /mnt/ada0p2/usr/src/11.04-os/12.04-world-kernel-armv7 # make > TARGET_ARCH=armv7 KERNCONF=CHROMEBOOK-SNOW buildkernel > > /tmp/hack-d033d3.o: file not recognized: file format not recognized > cc : error : linker command failed with exit 1 (use -v to see > invocation) > > I feel that it is not a huge error and I can fix it,but I don't > know how. To be able to compile it on FreeBSD 12.04 would be a > little success. > > On Mon, Jan 15, 2024 at 4:59 PM Mario Marietto > <marietto2008@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hello to everyone. > > I'm trying to install FreeBSD 14 natively on my ARM Chromebook > model xe303c12 ; I've found only one tutorial that teaches how > to do that,that's it : > > https://wiki.freebsd.org/arm/Chromebook > > The problem is that it ends with the installation of FreeBSD > 11,that's very EOL. > I can't use it as is. I need to upgrade it to 14 (but I'm on > arm 32 bit,that's TIER-2,so I can't upgrade it automatically > using the freebsd-update script. It is also true that I can't > install 14 directly on that machine,as you can read below : > > > unnamed.png > > I've looked all around and I found the tool pkgbase,that I'm > talking about on the FreeBSD forum,to understand if it allows > the 11 to be usable or upgradable. It does not seem to be the > proper tool to achieve my goal. Do you have any suggestions > that can help me ? Thanks. > > -- > Mario. > > > > -- > Mario. > > > > -- > Mario. [-- Attachment #2 --]help
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