From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Sep 27 1:37:36 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E4F4C37B401 for ; Fri, 27 Sep 2002 01:37:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from whale.sunbay.crimea.ua (whale.sunbay.crimea.ua [212.110.138.65]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2332D43E6E for ; Fri, 27 Sep 2002 01:37:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ru@whale.sunbay.crimea.ua) Received: (from ru@localhost) by whale.sunbay.crimea.ua (8.11.6/8.11.2) id g8R8aLv70012; Fri, 27 Sep 2002 11:36:21 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from ru) Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 11:36:21 +0300 From: Ruslan Ermilov To: Gheorghe Ardelean Cc: Kent Stewart , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: installworld broken when upgradeing from 4.0R to RELENG_4_6 Message-ID: <20020927083621.GA66744@sunbay.com> References: <3D937A5A.9000008@owt.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="LZvS9be/3tNcYl/X" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.99i Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --LZvS9be/3tNcYl/X Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 09:40:38PM +0200, Gheorghe Ardelean wrote: >=20 > Hi, >=20 > > Did you take a shortcut and try to do your installworld before you > > booted to single user mode on the new kernel. That may not fix your > > problem but people won't worry about it until you have done it in the > > proper order. >=20 > I did a remote install without a serial console. This worked for 20 > servers so I did it the same on this one. The other server where 4.3R and > 4.4S >=20 > The order was: >=20 > make buildworld > make buildkernel > make installkernel > mergemaster.sh -p > make installworld > errors after installation of /bin/test > then the sysctl fix from the previous mail > make installworld (this time ok) > and finally mergemaster and reboot. >=20 > So I jumped over the reboot step (as UPDATING says often is possible). > It seems that 4.0 is to old for this jump. >=20 Yes, it's required to boot with the new kernel to jump over a 4.0 release. Cheers, --=20 Ruslan Ermilov Sysadmin and DBA, ru@sunbay.com Sunbay Software AG, ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer, +380.652.512.251 Simferopol, Ukraine http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve http://www.oracle.com Enabling The Information Age --LZvS9be/3tNcYl/X Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE9lBiEUkv4P6juNwoRAkcpAJ4wUTNctFB/fzEDzsa88J/fHbVV7ACeN8Q+ XU2S7TiNgAdTggtVjqpum4w= =5oBL -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --LZvS9be/3tNcYl/X-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message