Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2008 21:23:06 +0100 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org> To: Kevin Kinsey <kdk@daleco.biz> Cc: FreeBSD-Questions <FreeBSD-Questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Uname borked on ??-Release... Message-ID: <47CC5E2A.8090800@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <47CC36C9.7020402@daleco.biz> References: <47CC36C9.7020402@daleco.biz>
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Kevin Kinsey wrote: > Hello, > > Been bashing myself on the head for a few days, so I'm > looking for a little help. If you've a big stick, read > on (and apologies if poor formatting, I'm using an unfamiliar > keyboard, unfamiliar mailer, and I'm not even sure if this > system is running FreeBSD anymore :-D ) > > I get the following from uname -a: > > FreeBSD archangel.daleco.biz 6.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE #6: > Sat Jun 2 09:22:50 CDT 2007 root@archangel.daleco.biz: > /usr/obj/backup/src/sys/GENERIC i386 > > However, I rebuilt world, more or less without issues, > twice in February with "RELENG_6" in the supfile. This > didn't change uname's output, and that worried me a bit. > > So, to make matters bette^H^H^H^Hadder, I csup'ped > to RELENG_7_0 the day after it was release, read > /usr/src/UPDATING, and the webpage detailing the > upgrade, and did another buildworld/kernel cycle. > Now I have no idea if I'm on 6 or 7 (seems like > 7, but many ports issues, and I've rebuilt them > all), and it's just becoming a major PITA. You didnt succeed in installing the new kernel. 'make installkernel' is the step in which this occurs. Kris
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