Re: How to upgrade an EOL FreeBSD release or how to make it working again

Hello.

I tried to compile the kernel for armv7 taking the source code of FreeBSD
12.04 and using FreeBSD 11.4 as os to compile it and I've got this error :

/mnt/ada0p2/usr/src/11.04-os/12.04-world-kernel-armv7 # make
TARGET_ARCH=armv7 KERNCONF=CHROMEBOOK-SNOW buildkernel

/tmp/hack-d033d3.o: file not recognized: file format not recognized
cc : error : linker command failed with exit 1 (use -v to see invocation)

I feel that it is not a huge error and I can fix it,but I don't know how.
To be able to compile it on FreeBSD 12.04 would be a little success.

On Mon, Jan 15, 2024 at 4:59 PM Mario Marietto <marietto2008@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hello to everyone.
>
> I'm trying to install FreeBSD 14 natively on my ARM Chromebook model
> xe303c12 ; I've found only one tutorial that teaches how to do that,that's
> it :
>
> https://wiki.freebsd.org/arm/Chromebook
>
> The problem is that it ends with the installation of FreeBSD 11,that's
> very EOL.
> I can't use it as is. I need to upgrade it to 14 (but I'm on arm 32
> bit,that's TIER-2,so I can't upgrade it automatically using the
> freebsd-update script. It is also true that I can't install 14 directly on
> that machine,as you can read below :
>
>
> [image: unnamed.png]
>
> I've looked all around and I found the tool pkgbase,that I'm talking about
> on the FreeBSD forum,to understand if it allows the 11 to be usable or
> upgradable. It does not seem to be the proper tool to achieve my goal. Do
> you have any suggestions that can help me ? Thanks.
>
> --
> Mario.
>


-- 
Mario.