From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun May 10 12:05:56 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B9F010656C7 for ; Sun, 10 May 2009 12:05:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bsam@ipt.ru) Received: from services.ipt.ru (services.ipt.ru [194.62.233.110]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 302C78FC18 for ; Sun, 10 May 2009 12:05:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bsam@ipt.ru) Received: from bb.ipt.ru ([194.62.233.89]) by services.ipt.ru with esmtp (Exim 4.54 (FreeBSD)) id 1M37n0-000Ids-2o; Sun, 10 May 2009 16:05:54 +0400 To: APseudoUtopia References: <27ade5280905092108t19375fn63c63c10c72fefa8@mail.gmail.com> From: Boris Samorodov Date: Sun, 10 May 2009 16:05:54 +0400 In-Reply-To: <27ade5280905092108t19375fn63c63c10c72fefa8@mail.gmail.com> (apseudoutopia@gmail.com's message of "Sun\, 10 May 2009 00\:08\:42 -0400") Message-ID: <24737181@bb.ipt.ru> User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.3 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Upgrading to New Kernel - Hung on Boot X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 10 May 2009 12:06:00 -0000 On Sun, 10 May 2009 00:08:42 -0400 APseudoUtopia wrote: > I have a FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE system. I'm trying to upgrade to 7.2, > specifically the RELENG_7_2 tag. > I synced my sources via csup, built world, built kernel, and installed > kernel. All went well. I rebooted into single user mode, and the > kernel hung. The loader menu came up, but when the kernel starts > loading it hangs. > I recovered it by dropping to a loader prompt and loading kernel.old. > It booted up fine. > I have attached the kernel config I used to buildkernel. I'm guessing > it has something to do with this. > In case it's relevant, the system is a dual-core Intel Xeon, with > HyperThreading disabled. If you have a custom kernel and get any problems than the first thing to do is to build GENERIC kernel and see if the problem still exists. BTW, don't forget to copy your /boot/kernel.old directory to /boot/kernel.good, else it will be deletted when installing a new kernel. WBR -- Boris Samorodov (bsam) Research Engineer, http://www.ipt.ru Telephone & Internet SP FreeBSD Committer, http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve