Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2014 12:40:34 +0000 (UTC) From: "Thomas Mueller" <mueller6724@bellsouth.net> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: The best approach to upgrade to freebsd 10 ? Message-ID: <64791.5198.bm@smtp119.sbc.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> References: <CALf6cgY-UTRTFTGpuAUiJQPAhf=O2rmSD51yJ8uupSRX7ZbH0g@mail.gmail.com>
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> A few days ago I did the (freebsd-update) upgrade of my VPS. I've been > using FreeBSD since 4.8 and been running various releases and doing > upgrades since then. This last upgrade (9.2-->10.0) was probably the worst, > though I accept the blame for not reading /usr/src/UPDATING carefully. Here > are the problems I ran into: > 1) unable to boot after first stage of upgrade with "mounting ufs... error > 19". This is explained in UPDATING entry 20110424 - basically, disk device > names have been changed and the system was not able to find boot partition > ad0s1a as it was renamed to ada0s1a. This is an old entry, but there were > symbolic links to old device names throughout 9.x enabling the old > configuration to work which I guess was removed on 20130404 ("Legacy ATA > stack... completely removed from sources"). > 2) network not working. I can't find this exactly in the UPDATING notes, > but there was a lot of talk on Xen-related changes so I guess it was not > much of a surprise. My NIC was renamed from re0 to xn0 hosing the > ifconfig_re0 entries in rc.conf and ipfw "via" rules. > 3) not actually a problem per se, but building a custom kernel with > IPFIREWALL_FORWARD option I was using before failed with "unknown option". > Again, this is in UPDATING entry 20121102 - option removed, functionality > enabled by default. Finally! > So take care if you share any of the above. 1) and 2) are especially > problematic if you are running upgrade remotely. > Regards, -- > Nino You mention re0 being renamed to xn0. I couldn't find any device xn or xn0 in FreeBSD 11-current, though I found xe and xen. I figured if it were in 10-STABLE, it would also be in 11-HEAD. For a moment, I thought maybe the reason why I couldn't connect Ethernet on MSI Z77 MPOWER motherboard was needing to use a driver other than re, but nothing so simple. There is still device re. Did you make a typo with xn0? I also wonder if the best way to upgrade to FreeBSD 10 is to jump to 11-HEAD, am seriously considering that. Tom
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