Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 09:33:10 -0600 (CST) From: Brian Woodruff <wood@eris.quintessential.com> To: jef53313@bayou.uh.edu Cc: flygt@sr.se, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: 3.1 UNstable Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.96.990331093032.12748A-100000@eris.quintessential.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9903310910540.4845-100000@fosburgh.dyndns.org>
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On Wed, 31 Mar 1999, Jonathan Fosburgh wrote: > [snip] > > > > maybe installing from floppies is different from installing off the net? > > comments? > > > No he is referring to the install floppies. so I read. > 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. If I'm not mistaken, he said this *DID* work, and I'm wondering why. I already know why it should have failed. BDW > 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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