Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2002 15:12:50 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: walt <wa1ter@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problem upgrading to -current Message-ID: <20021223131250.GA644@gothmog.gr> In-Reply-To: <3E0664B6.8060306@hotmail.com> References: <au5lpm$ac$1@FreeBSD.csie.NCTU.edu.tw> <3E0664B6.8060306@hotmail.com>
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On 2002-12-22 17:19, walt <wa1ter@hotmail.com> wrote: >Martin Hasenbein wrote: >> I've tried to upgrade to -current a few minutes ago. Before >> upgrading I had FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE-p2 >> >> After a "make buildworld / make buildkernel /make installkernel" >> and rebooting, I still have FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE-p2 > > Sounds like you are rebooting with the old kernel in the / directory > instead of the new kernel which is now in the /boot/kernel > directory. > > If you interrupt the boot loader by hitting SPACE, you can then type > 'unload' and then 'load /boot/kernel/kernel' then 'boot' which will > boot the new kernel. > > I've never done the upgrade path, so I'm not sure how you are > supposed to avoid this problem. Maybe you are doing things in the > wrong sequence or skipping steps? By editing /boot/loader.conf before rebooting and changing `bootfile' to the new location of the kernel: bootfile="/boot/kernel/kernel" you can instruct the loader to load the new kernel by default. Perhaps we should add this to the instructions of UPDATING for upgrades of 4.X to 5.X :-/ - Giorgos To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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