Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2006 16:43:50 -0600 From: Martin Jackson <mhjacks@swbell.net> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 6.1-BETA4 installation report Message-ID: <441DDEA6.8090805@swbell.net> In-Reply-To: <20060319215507.GA7464@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <441DC164.5060703@swbell.net> <20060319215507.GA7464@xor.obsecurity.org>
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>> 1) The upgrade errored out almost immediately on /var/empty, since it >> had been chflags'ed to nschg. I went to the shell and chflags'ed that >> off, and upgrade continued. > > It's supposed to be that way, so something is wrong if this is causing > problems :( Agreed. :) Looking through the source to sysinstall, it looks like I should have a /boot/kernel.prev, but I don't. Perhaps the install of base went more poorly than I thought? I wound up not having /boot/kernel at all. >> 2) The 'kernels' distribution wasn't installed at all, which led loader >> to complain upon reboot. I had an old kernel installed, so I booted >> from that and used sysinstall to install GENERIC. I also had to change >> loader.conf to reference 'kernel="GENERIC"'. Is this the preferred way >> to do it, or should I move 'GENERIC' to 'kernel'? > > It should be installed as kernel. Again I don't know how you got > something else :( Hm. I will try to reinstall with 6.0-RELEASE and try to do the binary upgrade again, and see what happens. Things will be different; this system was my first attempt to go to STABLE before I upgraded it so I can't rule out errors of my own in this case. Thanks, Marty
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