From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jul 24 10:58:49 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AED4A16A41F for ; Sun, 24 Jul 2005 10:58:49 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bsd@bathnetworks.com) Received: from lmail.bathnetworks.co.uk (mail.bathnetworks.com [84.92.24.252]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA6CD43D45 for ; Sun, 24 Jul 2005 10:58:48 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bsd@bathnetworks.com) Received: (qmail 2933 invoked by uid 510); 24 Jul 2005 11:01:00 +0000 Received: from 84.92.24.252 by lmail.bathnetworks.co.uk (envelope-from , uid 508) with qmail-scanner-1.24-st-qms (clamdscan: 0.86.1/957. spamassassin: 3.0.2. perlscan: 1.24-st-qms. Clear:RC:0(84.92.24.252):SA:0(-1.9/5.0):. Processed in 1.587953 secs); 24 Jul 2005 11:01:00 -0000 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.9 required=5.0 X-Antivirus-MYDOMAIN-Mail-From: bsd@bathnetworks.com via lmail.bathnetworks.co.uk X-Antivirus-MYDOMAIN: 1.24-st-qms (Clear:RC:0(84.92.24.252):SA:0(-1.9/5.0):. Processed in 1.587953 secs Process 2916) Received: from mail.bathnetworks.com (HELO ?84.92.24.252?) (bsd@bathnetworks.com@84.92.24.252) by lmail.bathnetworks.co.uk with SMTP; 24 Jul 2005 11:00:58 +0000 From: Robert Slade To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Bj=F6rn_K=F6nig?= In-Reply-To: <42E36CC6.7050504@cs.tu-berlin.de> References: <1122195075.1041.2.camel@lmail.bathnetworks.co.uk> <42E36CC6.7050504@cs.tu-berlin.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Message-Id: <1122202858.1041.19.camel@lmail.bathnetworks.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 (1.4.6-2) Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2005 11:00:58 +0000 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: Reverting Ports 5.4 -> 5.3 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, 24 Jul 2005 10:58:49 -0000 On Sun, 2005-07-24 at 10:26, Björn König wrote: > Robert Slade wrote: > > > As I have been having problems with 5.4 on my Compaq Pl5000, I would > > like to go back to 5.3-Stable. Is it possible to roll back the ports via > > CVSUP to 5.3 by just changing the TAG=. > > There are not much reasons to use an old version of the ports. Do you > have a specific problem? > > By the way, most likely you mean that you want to go back to > 5.3-RELEASE. The operating system whose "uname -r" shows "5.3-STABLE" is > one of thousands states between November 2004 and May 2005. > > Björn Thank you for the reply. My problem is that the machine worked fine with 5.3. The Machine is Qad processor 1 Gb ram with hardware raid with 5 drives set as 2 Raid arrays and 1 spare. I did a CVSup to RELENG_5. I rebuilt world and the kernel. Here the problems started. On booting it could not find any hard drives. It tried to boot the correct drive, but failed. At the mountroot prompt the ? option only lists the CD and FD. As far as I can tell it is a problem with GEOM trying to take over the raid. I can boot using kernel.old. >From the 5.4 release notes GEOM is mandatory for 5.4. As I do not have the expertise to fix this and I would rather have a working system, I would like to role back to 5.3 as this worked. I assume that if I did a CVSup with TAG=5.3 this should get me back to 5.3_stable. I am not convinced though. Is this correct? Rob