going from 6.2 to 6.3 and custom kernel

[Zbigniew Szalbot]

Hello again,

2008/1/21, Manolis Kiagias <sonicy at otenet.gr>:
>
>
> Zbigniew Szalbot wrote:
> > Here they go:
> >
> > FreeBSD domain.tld 6.2-RELEASE-p5 FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE-p5 #2: Wed Jul
> > 4 13:29:40 CEST 2007     root at domain.tld:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/LISTS
> > i386
> >
> > $ ls -la /boot
> > total 836
> > drwxr-xr-x   6 root  wheel     512 Jan 21 07:21 .
> > drwxr-xr-x  23 root  wheel     512 Jan 19 18:06 ..
> > -r--r--r--   1 root  wheel    7638 Jan 22  2007 beastie.4th
> > -r--r--r--   1 root  wheel    8192 Jan 21 07:21 boot
> > -r--r--r--   1 root  wheel     512 Jan 22  2007 boot0
> > -r--r--r--   1 root  wheel     512 Jan 21 07:21 boot0sio
> > -r--r--r--   1 root  wheel     512 Jan 22  2007 boot1
> > -r--r--r--   1 root  wheel    7680 Jan 21 07:21 boot2
> > -r--r--r--   1 root  wheel    1201 Jan 21 07:21 cdboot
> > drwxr-xr-x   2 root  wheel     512 Jan 21 07:21 defaults
> > -r--r--r--   1 root  wheel    1741 May  7  2006 device.hints
> > -r--r--r--   1 root  wheel    2249 Jan 22  2007 frames.4th
> > drwxr-xr-x   2 root  wheel    9728 Jan 21 07:21 kernel.old
> > -r-xr-xr-x   1 root  wheel  217088 Jan 21 07:21 loader
> > -r--r--r--   1 root  wheel    7772 Jan 22  2007 loader.4th
> > -rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel       0 Sep  8  2006 loader.conf
> > -r--r--r--   1 root  wheel   15219 Jan 22  2007 loader.help
> > -r-xr-xr-x   1 root  wheel  212992 May  7  2006 loader.old
> > -r--r--r--   1 root  wheel     389 May  7  2006 loader.rc
> > -r--r--r--   1 root  wheel     512 Jan 22  2007 mbr
> > drwxr-xr-x   2 root  wheel     512 May  7  2006 modules
> > drwxr-xr-x   2 root  wheel    9728 Jan 21 07:21 mykernel.old
> > -r--r--r--   1 root  wheel  219136 Jan 21 07:21 pxeboot
> > -r--r--r--   1 root  wheel     692 Jan 22  2007 screen.4th
> > -r--r--r--   1 root  wheel   36440 Jan 22  2007 support.4th
> >
> > Thank you!
> >
> > I can repeat upgrade/install procedure but will it help?
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Zbigniew Szalbot
> >
> >
> >
> Problem is if you run freebsd-update install a second time, I believe it
> will install the rest of the system, as it has already installed the kernel.
>  From your /boot/ directory I see no /kernel directory, I assume you
> moved it to mykernel.old

Yes, I did. I was then going to copy GENRIC when it turned out there is none.

> However the /kernel.old directory has a today's date, while normally
> this is only changed when you recompile a new kernel. Is it possible
> there was a GENERIC kernel in there that was updated?
> I am just speculating here, but you could try the following:
>
> - Reboot
> - Escape to loader prompt
> - unload
> - load /boot/kernel.old/kernel
> - boot
>
> and see if uname -a shows a 6.3-RELEASE
>
> Before this, you may want to take a look at the dates of the files
> inside /boot/kernel.old to see if they are updated

I don't think they are updated. The date for all of them is Jul 4 2007
which is when I upgraded to 6.2 (I think or when I last compiled the
kernel)

$ ls -la /boot/kernel.old |less
total 22958
drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel     9728 Jan 21 07:21 .
drwxr-xr-x  6 root  wheel      512 Jan 21 07:21 ..
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel    13163 Jul  4  2007 3dfx.ko
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel     4948 Jul  4  2007 3dfx_linux.ko
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel    55673 Jul  4  2007 aac.ko
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel     4427 Jul  4  2007 aac_linux.ko
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel     3296 Jul  4  2007 accf_data.ko
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel     5868 Jul  4  2007 accf_http.ko
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel   369012 Jul  4  2007 acpi.ko
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel    18136 Jul  4  2007 acpi_asus.ko
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel    12062 Jul  4  2007 acpi_fujitsu.ko
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel    15152 Jul  4  2007 acpi_ibm.ko
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel    10558 Jul  4  2007 acpi_panasonic.ko
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel     6599 Jul  4  2007 acpi_sony.ko
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel    12183 Jul  4  2007 acpi_toshiba.ko
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel    17119 Jul  4  2007 acpi_video.ko
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel    86198 Jul  4  2007 agp.ko
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel    25105 Jul  4  2007 aha.ko
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel    18784 Jul  4  2007 ahb.ko
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel   139328 Jul  4  2007 ahc.ko
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel     7787 Jul  4  2007 ahc_eisa.ko
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel     8541 Jul  4  2007 ahc_isa.ko

What are my choices now? I cannot reboot as it won't run without a
generic kernel. I cannot go back to 6.2 as I have already used
install...?

Thank you!

Zbigniew Szalbot