Problem while upgrading to 4.10 from 4.7...

[Bill Moran]

"Timothy Gagnon" <tgagnon at WPI.EDU> wrote:

> > "Timothy Gagnon" <tgagnon at WPI.EDU> wrote:
> >
> >> Alright, I have been trying to upgrade FreeBSD from 4.7 to 4.10...I used
> >> cvsup to get all the files "make buildworld" when through just fine, but
> >> the problem comes after "make kernel KERNCONF=GENERIC"...
> >
> > If you did, literally, what you describe, then your problem is that you
> > upgraded improperly.
> >
> > "make buildworld" builds world, but doesn't install it.  "make kernel"
> > makes
> > and installs the kernel.  If you did the steps you describe, then you have
> > a kernel and a world with mistmatched versions.
> 
> Well, I didn't use "make buildkernel" I used "make kernel" which from what
> I understood was the same as typing both "make buildkernel" and "make
> installkernel"...

Please re-read ...

I'm talking about the "make buildworld" step ... if you did not follow it with
a "make installworld" at some point, then your world was never updated and
you're running a kernel newer than your world.

> 
> > If that's the case, get booted into the system and re-run the upgrade
> > process.
> > Be sure to do all the steps this time, as described in 21.4.1:
> > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/makeworld.html
> >
> >> When I reboot and the kernel starts to load...it *always* just stops at
> >> the same point and just sits there doing nothing at "acd1: CD-RW <My
> >> CD-RW
> >> info> at ata1-slave PIO4"...
> >>
> >> If I restart and run "kernel.GENERIC" from the boot prompt I can get it
> >> to
> >> load the kernel, but I want to be able to go into single-user mode to
> >> mount the file system, plus I just don't like having things acting
> >> screwy.
> >
> > --
> > Bill Moran
> > Potential Technologies
> > http://www.potentialtech.com
> >
> >
> >
> 
> 


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Bill Moran
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