From owner-freebsd-xen@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Feb 3 14:40:02 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-xen@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [8.8.178.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C7424C4 for ; Sun, 3 Feb 2013 14:40:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jeroen@dckd.nl) Received: from positron.soleus.nu (positron.soleus.nu [94.142.246.99]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 138CCA30 for ; Sun, 3 Feb 2013 14:40:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from dyn21.dckd.nl (dyn21.dckd.nl [145.99.178.221]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by positron.soleus.nu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id D635BF800D for ; Sun, 3 Feb 2013 15:39:59 +0100 (CET) Subject: Re: Upgrading XENHVM 9.0 to 9.1 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 6.2 \(1499\)) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii From: Jeroen van der Ham In-Reply-To: Resent-From: Jeroen van der Ham Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2013 15:16:21 +0100 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Resent-Date: Sun, 3 Feb 2013 15:39:59 +0100 Message-Id: References: Resent-To: "" To: Mark Felder X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1499) Resent-Message-Id: <20130203144002.4C7424C4@hub.freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-xen@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-xen@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion of the freebsd port to xen - implementation and usage List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 03 Feb 2013 14:40:02 -0000 Hi, On 24 Jan 2013, at 14:41, Mark Felder wrote: >> - I manually downloaded and extracted the 9.1 GENERIC kernel. Booting = from that results in a rootmount mismatch (ada0 vs ad0). Just renaming = it in /etc/fstab does not seem to be enough, what else would I need to = do? >=20 > Yes, the GENERIC kernel uses adaX and the XENHVM kernel uses adX. It = shouldn't be a problem to just change it in the fstab though. I've not = yet had problems running 9.1 with XENHVM yet. I tried this both using the mountroot prompt when booting with an old = fstab and a corrected fstab. In both cases the kernel is not able to = mount the UFS volume. >> - I manually built a new 9.1 XENHVM kernel. Booting from that results = in the message: "pudna: fpcurthread =3D=3D curthread xx times" scrolling = by. What can I do to fix that? >>=20 >=20 > I've not seen this message yet either.=20 I've seen this message also previously when I was toying around with my = 9.0 system. I forget what exactly I did though. There are some references to it in earlier cases, dating back to 2005: http://marc.info/?l=3Dfreebsd-amd64&m=3D112231842214570 Another in 2010: http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=3D17979 (I did not try those options yet though) > Can you provide more details of the Xen environment you're hosted on? AMD Opteron system, with kernel 2.6.32 on Dom0, using 4.0.1-2. My VPS is run using Xen qemu. >> Is there a problem in continuing to run the 9.0 XENHVM kernel with = the 9.1 system? >>=20 >=20 > This would not be advised. It *may* work, but be warned that you may = run into strange issues. I noticed that freebsd-update started complaining during its cron-job. = I've since performed a freebsd-update rollback. Jeroen. _______________________________________________ freebsd-xen@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-xen To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-xen-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"