From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 25 0:44:36 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ds9.sci.fi (ds9.sci.fi [195.74.0.54]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9523B37BCA2; Tue, 25 Apr 2000 00:44:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from juksi@iname.com) Received: from sjukebox (MMCDLVII.hdyn.saunalahti.fi [195.197.44.57]) by ds9.sci.fi (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id KAA24918; Tue, 25 Apr 2000 10:43:56 +0300 (EET DST) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20000424221426.A2314@orion.ac.hmc.edu> Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 10:43:38 +0300 (EEST) From: Jukka Simila To: Brooks Davis Subject: Re: 3.4S -> 4.0S botched, can't build anything now Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, Ryan Davis Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 25-Apr-00 Brooks Davis wrote: > On Mon, Apr 24, 2000 at 09:53:46PM -0700, Ryan Davis wrote: >> I followed the instructions in /usr/src/UPDATING as best I could, but >> I still think it is conflicting on whether to build the kernel first >> or not. Doesn't matter, trying to build the kernel first failed, >> presumably because config has changed. I wasn't able to build a custom kernel; instead I built a GENERIC and that worked. (After I had similar problems like you) > >> I am trying to restore from tape now to see if I can roll out the >> partial install until I get this under control. I am really >> disappointed in how bad this transition has been. I usually brag to >> linux bigots about how painless keeping up to date BSD is w/ cvsup >> and /usr/src. > > That's the easiest answer. I don't think so; I messed up my 3.4 installation (as I thought) when I tried to upgrade to 4.0. Installworld gave me signal 12 thousands of times before I went back to the UPDATING. Thou I had tried to make installworld with 3.4's kernel and also tried to copy old sh to /bin/sh, when the new one gave the signal 12, I was still able to compile the GENERIC. And after a reboot with GENERIC, I could finish the installworld. So if you (Ryan) just have the GENERIC (4.0) around, or are able to compile it, then give it a try before starting it all over again. After you have a working 4.0 system, your custom kernel should also work. @-`--,--`--- Jukka Simila To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message