Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 13:08:56 +1100 From: "Mark Hannon" <mark@doorway.homeip.net> To: current@freebsd.org Subject: 5.0-RC1 Binary Upgrade = Kernel Trap Message-ID: <20021211020856.M20648@doorway.homeip.net>
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Hi, Some notes on my upgrade / fresh install experiences with 5.0-RC1. 1) Binary Upgrade doesn't recognize existing swap partitions Original configuration, Athlon 1.2, IDE, 4.7 + Gnome2 etal. I booted the install CD, selected 'upgrade', ignored the warnings and proceeded to the disk label menu. At this point I re-mounted all my existing partitions (except swap) and hit Q. The installer then complained that I had no swap and it wouldn't continue (despite the presence of a 'b' slice). I returned to the label editor, deleted and then re-created the 'b' slice and continued the upgrade. 2) Binary Upgrade from 4.7-RELEASE failed with kernel trap After choosing the installation sets and install media I hit ENTER and the installation started. About 10% through the base install the system halted with a kernel trap: type 12 trap, code 0 Stopped at vfs_setdirty+0x56: movzwl 0x3e(%ebx),%eax 3) Not able to reset active partition Given that I now had a partially installed system I elected to re-install from scratch, a new attempt, with re-labelled and newfs partitions installed without complications. After rebooting the installed system I wanted to reset the active partition to my NTFS primary (where I use the Win2K boot.ini to boot FreeBSD). I was not able to get fdisk to set the active partition. 4) Gnome install did not create gdm user/group As part of the initial install I selected gnome2, the packages were all installed, however the gdm user/groups were not added to the system. I had to manually add them, reset directory ownership and permissions to get gdm to start. 5) Mozilla not on CD Can I suggest that mozilla would be a better browser to stick on the install CD than netscape? Haven't had more time to play with things yet as when I finally tried to login to gnome it complained that it couldn't lock some file in my (NFS mounted) homedirectory. I will poke around tonight and check if I have enabled NFS client side locking. Regards/Mark -- Open WebMail Project (http://openwebmail.org) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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