From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 20 18:52:12 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B20D737B401 for ; Mon, 20 Jan 2003 18:52:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from nycsmtp2out.rdc-nyc.rr.com (nycsmtp2out.rdc-nyc.rr.com [24.29.99.223]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C36943F18 for ; Mon, 20 Jan 2003 18:52:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from scottro@nyc.rr.com) Received: from nyc.rr.com (66-108-172-188.nyc.rr.com [66.108.172.188]) by nycsmtp2out.rdc-nyc.rr.com (8.12.1/Road Runner SMTP Server 1.0) with SMTP id h0L2l3UK022750 for >; Mon, 20 Jan 2003 21:47:03 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 21:59:32 -0500 From: Scott Robbins To: Freebsd-questions Subject: Re: Problem upgrading from 4.6 to 5.0 - RELEASE (lib.a not found) Message-ID: <20030121025932.GB1786@scottro11.homeunix.net> Mail-Followup-To: Freebsd-questions References: <002901c2c0f6$8faa84c0$0301a8c0@sys.gtei.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <002901c2c0f6$8faa84c0$0301a8c0@sys.gtei.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 06:41:12PM -0800, James wrote: > I've been running FreeBSD 4.6 since last June, and I decided to upgrade to > 5.0 Release. > > I read through and followed the instructions listed in /usr/src/UPDATING. > Here is what I did (as per the UPDATING file): > > cd /usr/src > make buildworld > make buildkernel KERNCONF=GENERIC > cp src/sys/i386/conf/GENERIC.hints /boot/device.hints > make installkernel KERNCONF=GENERIC > cd src/sys/boot > make install > > The problem comes at the above command(s): > cd src/sys/boot ; make install Hrrm, is it possible, that since you're in src already, the path is off? (The error message seems to point in other directions, but I know this has happened to a few people. I Just for the heck of it, try cd /usr/src/sys/boot (or cd sys/boot) > -- Scott Robbins PGP keyID EB3467D6 ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 D575 EB34 67D6 ) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6 Buffy: The world is what it is---we fight, we die. Wishing doesn't change that. Giles: I have to believe in a better world. Buffy: Go ahead. I have to live in this one. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message