From owner-freebsd-current Sat Oct 16 1:57:31 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from jason.argos.org (a1-3a123.neo.rr.com [24.93.180.123]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71EB114A19 for ; Sat, 16 Oct 1999 01:57:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@argos.org) Received: from localhost (mike@localhost) by jason.argos.org (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id EAA25342; Sat, 16 Oct 1999 04:57:18 -0400 Date: Sat, 16 Oct 1999 04:57:18 -0400 (EDT) From: Mike Nowlin To: "Ilmar S. Habibulin" Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: jumping from 3.1 to 4.0 In-Reply-To: <199910151019.OAA23486@ws-ilmar.ints.ru> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message