Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 09:21:53 -0600 (CST) From: Jonathan Fosburgh <wotan@fosburgh.dyndns.org> To: "Brian D. Woodruff" <wood@eris.quintessential.com> Cc: flygt@sr.se, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: 3.1 UNstable Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9903310910540.4845-100000@fosburgh.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.19990331090226.008bdd30@freeq.com>
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[snip] > > maybe installing from floppies is different from installing off the net? > comments? > No he is referring to the install floppies. What he was attempting to do was use the 3.0-RELEASE sysinstall and install floppies to perform a binary upgrade to 3.1-RELEASE. Normally this would work (I used to use old sysinstall to do upgrades along the 2.2 tree before getting a second disk and having room to CVSup) but it does not work when using a sysinstall or floppies from before the ELF kernels. The sysinstall program in /stand does not update the boot blocks and the floppies install whatever version is on them, not what is needed by the release. In other words, if using a 3.0-RELEASE install floppy but set the dist to 3.1-RELEASE< you'll get the 3.1 binaries but the boot code will come from the floppy. If the documentation is not already there, then somewhere it should be very loudly stated that a binary upgrade from pre-ELF kernel systems to ELF-kernel systems won't work with anything BUT the proper boot floppies, 3.1-RELEASE, 3.1-SNAP, whatever. Surely there are still a number of people on 2.2 (or even 3.0) that can't do a source upgrade and aren't aware that they could break their ability to boot by not using the 3.1 floppies. IIRC there is a way to install the correct loader from a running system, so perhaps one could boot kernel.prev and install the new loader that way, but of course, one has to know to do it. Jonathan Fosburgh Geotechnician Snyder Oil Corporation Houston, TX Home Page: http://www.geocities.com/vienna/1498 Manager, FreeBSD Webring: http://www.geocities.com/vienna/1498/computer/freebsdring.html ICQ: 32742908 AIM: Namthorien To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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