Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 13:36:24 +0000 (GMT) From: Jan Grant <Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk> To: Filip Lenaerts <filip@freeshell.org> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: upgrading 5.4 -> 6.0 without reinstalling. safe ? Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.62.0511101333330.19268@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <20051110133127.GA11544@SDF.LONESTAR.ORG> References: <E1EZp9T-0008i7-Kg@dilbert.firstcallgroup.co.uk> <b41c75520511090501nbef3235j@mail.gmail.com> <4372256F.2020800@kernel32.de> <op.szzszvxc8527sy@outgoing.local> <20051110090912.C33260@fledge.watson.org> <Pine.GSO.4.62.0511101112200.19268@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk> <20051110133127.GA11544@SDF.LONESTAR.ORG>
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On Thu, 10 Nov 2005, Filip Lenaerts wrote: > hi all > > On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 11:17:13AM +0000, Jan Grant wrote: > > > > FWIW I've just done a successful remote source-based upgrade from 5.4 to > > 6.0 (I'm brave) with no problems. I use a second root and /usr to be > > also did that last night with the latest sources, but failed when > booting in single user mode: i get a kernel panic when the kernel is > loading the nvidia0 device. > > > Providing you > > remember to rebuild or disable any 5.x-era kernel modules from ports > > (nvidia, rtc, etc) prior to the reboot it should work fine and offers a > > now this is interesting :) > > i have a nvidia gforce 6600xl, but i can't remember installing/using > the nvidia port. perhaps its installed as dependency of xorg? > > moreover in the sources, there is also a agp_nvidia.c. anyone perhaps > knows how this relates to the ports? is it an equivalent? are they > redundant to eachother? You have an option to use the FreeBSD agp device support or nVidia's. I have no idea what criteria one might use to select between them. > i'll try recompiling this evening the port and try a boot -s :) If the device is loaded from /boot/loader.conf you might need to disable that in order for the boot to single-user to work. YMMV. -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44 (0)117 3317661 http://ioctl.org/jan/ Goth isn't dead, it's just lying very still and sucking its cheeks in.
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