From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 27 11:43:23 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from beowulf.utmb.edu (beowulf.utmb.edu [129.109.59.83]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D36D515994 for ; Thu, 27 May 1999 11:43:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bdodson@beowulf.utmb.edu) Received: (from bdodson@localhost) by beowulf.utmb.edu (8.9.3/8.9.2) id NAA62910; Thu, 27 May 1999 13:40:05 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from bdodson) Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 13:40:05 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <199905271840.NAA62910@beowulf.utmb.edu> From: "M. L. Dodson" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: root@assmaster.mattgreen.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Upgrading from 3.1 to 3.2 In-Reply-To: <374D8D8C.CA5A2D2F@mattgreen.com> References: <374D8D8C.CA5A2D2F@mattgreen.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.34 under 19.16 "Lille" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Root writes: > I have upgraded twice now, and both times had the same results: > > I run /stand/sysinstall > do the upgrade > then when it is complete it says to exit install and it will reboot. > That does not happen, I have to reboot it. > Then when it comes up it won't boot kernel (it's not even there) > So I can boot kernel.prev no problem, but I've tried recompiling a > kernel, and it will still be a 3.1 kernel. > I can't figure out why it won't upgrade. Please help > > Hmmmm.... Can you upgrade via /stand/sysinstall from a running system? Don't think so. I think you have to boot an install floppy to do an upgrade. Else where would it get the new kernel? (As this gentleman is finding out.) -- M. L. Dodson bdodson@scms.utmb.edu 409-772-2178 FAX: 409-772-1790 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message