Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2006 16:55:07 -0500 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Martin Jackson <mhjacks@swbell.net> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 6.1-BETA4 installation report Message-ID: <20060319215507.GA7464@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <441DC164.5060703@swbell.net> References: <441DC164.5060703@swbell.net>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Sun, Mar 19, 2006 at 02:39:00PM -0600, Martin Jackson wrote: > Greetings, > > First of all, thanks for all the hard work that's gone into the 6.1 > release process so far. > > Today, I tried doing a binary upgrade of 6.1-PRERELEASE (cvsup'ed about > a week ago) to 6.1-BETA4. It's really old hardware, a PII 333Mhz. > > I don't know if what I tried to do is even supported, so I haven't filed > any PR's yet. > > I ran into two issues: > > 1) The upgrade errored out almost immediately on /var/empty, since it > had been chflags'ed to nschg. I went to the shell and chflags'ed that > off, and upgrade continued. It's supposed to be that way, so something is wrong if this is causing problems :( > 2) The 'kernels' distribution wasn't installed at all, which led loader > to complain upon reboot. I had an old kernel installed, so I booted > from that and used sysinstall to install GENERIC. I also had to change > loader.conf to reference 'kernel="GENERIC"'. Is this the preferred way > to do it, or should I move 'GENERIC' to 'kernel'? It should be installed as kernel. Again I don't know how you got something else :( Kris [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFEHdM6Wry0BWjoQKURAuqxAKDQn03gM0Q61NkwUU9mxMZlKt8qpgCg0csT 6ZZxT2cGO+mm8bkY0kwFks4= =AjSp -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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