From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 20 19:48:33 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 8191437B401 for ; Mon, 20 Jan 2003 19:48:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from grebe.mail.pas.earthlink.net (grebe.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.46]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1918A43F1E for ; Mon, 20 Jan 2003 19:48:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from effdefender@earthlink.net) Received: from lsanca1-ar19-4-47-011-021.lsanca1.elnk.dsl.genuity.net ([4.47.11.21] helo=Defender2) by grebe.mail.pas.earthlink.net with smtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 18apOo-0005SD-00 for Freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Mon, 20 Jan 2003 19:48:30 -0800 Message-ID: <001201c2c0ff$b2d82b60$0301a8c0@sys.gtei.net> Reply-To: "James" From: "James" To: "Freebsd-questions" References: <002901c2c0f6$8faa84c0$0301a8c0@sys.gtei.net> <20030121025932.GB1786@scottro11.homeunix.net> Subject: Re: Problem upgrading from 4.6 to 5.0 - RELEASE (lib.a not found) Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 19:46:36 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 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, thanks for the hints, but I've done that. :( I also do a "pwd" just to make sure where I am. I should have also have said: I cvsupped to RELEASE 5 yesterday at about 8pm. I've looked for that file "lib.a" on my HDD, but I can't find it. I used: find / -name "lib.a" Thank you for your quick response, though, Scott, I appreciate it. Got any more ideas? Thanks in advance! James Turnbull To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message