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Date:      Sat, 16 Oct 1999 04:57:18 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Mike Nowlin <mike@argos.org>
To:        "Ilmar S. Habibulin" <ilmar@ints.ru>
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: jumping from 3.1 to 4.0
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.05.9910160455100.25028-100000@jason.argos.org>
In-Reply-To: <199910151019.OAA23486@ws-ilmar.ints.ru>

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> I'm using freebsd 3.1 release at one of my PCs. Today i tried to upgrade
> it to current. I read mail-archives and knew, that i had to compile kernel
> first. So i made new config and configured and build kernel. While booting
> loader prints the next error message and boot fails:
> 
> /kernel text=0x202b9d
> elf_loadexec:archsw.readin failed
> can't load kernel
> 
> 
> What hould i do to upgrade to current?
> 
> PS. answer to email please.
> 

I ran into a similar problem going from 3.1 to 3.3 -- don't remember the
exact problem, and my notes are 40 miles away, but I ended up fixing it by
cd'ing into the boot code section of the source tree and doing a "make ;
make install"......   The archive probably describes this in detail.

mike




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