From owner-freebsd-current Thu Aug 15 6:26:45 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 382D637B400 for ; Thu, 15 Aug 2002 06:26:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.theapt.org (theapt.org [208.201.244.166]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 31D0F43E65 for ; Thu, 15 Aug 2002 06:26:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from phessler@theapt.org) Received: (qmail 372 invoked from network); 15 Aug 2002 13:26:36 -0000 Received: from leela.theapt.org (208.201.244.160) by 0 with SMTP; 15 Aug 2002 13:26:36 -0000 Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2002 06:26:40 -0700 From: Peter Hessler To: Nate Lawson Cc: david@catwhisker.org, current@FreeBSD.ORG, sziszi@bsd.hu Subject: Re: Weirdness trying -STABLE -> -CURRENT Message-Id: <20020815062640.274c341f.phessler@theapt.org> In-Reply-To: References: <200208150332.g7F3WC8r011504@bunrab.catwhisker.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.7.8 (GTK+ 1.2.10; powerpc-unknown-openbsd3.1) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 14 Aug 2002 21:31:35 -0700 (PDT) Nate Lawson wrote: :I upgraded a machine from 4.6R to -CURRENT today and had similar :problems. Comments below. : I upgraded from 4.5R to -CURRENT last night, and had /no/ issues. :On Wed, 14 Aug 2002, David Wolfskill wrote: :> To upgrade from 4.x-stable to current :> ------------------------------------- :> make buildworld :> make buildkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE :> cp src/sys/${MACHINE_ARCH}/conf/GENERIC.hints /boot/device.hints [2] :> make installkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE :> :> No problem up to here. : :Same. : Ditto :> reboot in single user [3] :> :> OK; here we have a fundamental problem, illustrated by the following :> commands I issued just after the "make installkernel": :> :> freebeast(4.6-S)[3] grep '^kernel' /boot/defaults/loader.conf :> kernel="/kernel" :> kernel_options="" :> freebeast(4.6-S)[4] :> :> The clue that I had was reviewing the transcript, and when I did the :> single-user boot, the system identified itself as 4.6-STABLE. : :This happened to me too. Perhaps the instructions should say to unload :kernel; load /boot/kernel/kernel on reboot or maybe explicitly copy in the :new /boot/defaults/loader.conf like you do with device.hints? : "unload kernel; load /boot/kernel/kernel; boot -s" brought up 5-CURRENT. /snip errors that I didn't get and problems I didn't experiance/ fsck -p mount -u / mount -a cd /usr/src make installworld #Note the lack of option '-k' mergemaster Everything went perfect (well, except my hands hurting from pressing 'i' and [enter] about 7 bajillion times. ;-) So possibly, the only thing that needs to be added to UPDATING is the recommendation to do the unload/load dance? -- Peter Hessler [phessler@theapt.org] [http://www.theapt.org] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message