From owner-freebsd-current Wed Apr 24 18:59:34 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.bsdimp.com [204.144.255.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3875E37B41A for ; Wed, 24 Apr 2002 18:59:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id g3P1vqH86624; Wed, 24 Apr 2002 19:57:52 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@village.org) Received: from localhost (warner@rover2.village.org [10.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g3P1vpb37396; Wed, 24 Apr 2002 19:57:51 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@village.org) Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 19:57:47 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <20020424.195747.15844500.imp@village.org> To: Jeff.Kelly@t-online.de Cc: sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: upgrade from 4.5 to current fails From: "M. Warner Losh" In-Reply-To: <001e01c1eba7$ad27ff70$594bfea9@bender> References: <004d01c1eb8a$bfadfef0$594bfea9@bender> <20020424082937.A35418@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <001e01c1eba7$ad27ff70$594bfea9@bender> X-Mailer: Mew version 2.1 on Emacs 21.1 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message: <001e01c1eba7$ad27ff70$594bfea9@bender> Jeff.Kelly@t-online.de (Christian Fl=FCgel) writes: : ----- Original Message ----- : From: "Steve Kargl" : To: "Christian Fl=FCgel" : Cc: : Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 5:29 PM : Subject: Re: upgrade from 4.5 to current fails : = : = : > If you start at 4.5 and upgrade to current, then the : > installkernel should report : > : > kldxref /boot/kernel : > kldxref: No Such File or Directory : > : > ***Error code 1(ignored) : > : > Note the Error code 1(ignored). : ^^^^^^^^^^^ : = : I am sure that I am not the only one who is confused by this error me= ssage. : I overread the (ignored) part of the message and assumend that it was= a : genuine error. Nothing about this is mentioned in either UPDATING or = README : and it has cost me about one day to get things straight again. A quic= k note : in UPDATING about this could have saved me a lot of time and energy. : = : But I still get signal 12 exceptions when trying to installworld. : It seems to me that the install process still uses my old kernel and = I am : not able to load the new one. Could anybody please tell me how to ach= ieve : this? Did you reboot with the new kernel into single user mode first? Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message