Upgrading Question

[Laurent C]

2005/11/26, Yousef Raffah <yraffah at savola.com>:
>
> Hello Everyone,


Hello,


I just thought of upgrading from FreeBSD 6 BETA5 to 6-STABLE so I
> followed the http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/makeworld.html manual
> page.
> I reached to a point where I had to reboot into single user mode to
> continue with make installworld and mergemaster but I wasn't able to
> boot into single user mode. The machine was hanging saying:
>
> Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/ad0s2a


 Did the prompt ask you to enter a shell path after this message ?
If yes, you can try to press "Enter" then type mount -a, and your slices in
/etc/fstab will be mounted, letting you continue in single user.

That's a thing I had when upgrading from 5.4 to 6-stable


I tried and tried and kept on trying with no luck, I disable some
> modules during kernel bootup and unset some variables but no luck!
>
> Anyhow, one of the guys on IRC told me to build a GENERIC kernel to at
> least boot so I built it but it panicked!
>
> My only way to boot my system now is going to the loader prompt and
> boot /boot/kernel.old/kernel
>
> No here comes my question, by booting this way, can I still create a new
> GENERIC kernel in order to upgrade my system? I would really appreciate
> your advice


I think that if you can (almost) boot with your old kernel, you must keep
it, and try to add some drivers on it.

--
Laurent