i386/138944: Cannot update to FreeBSD 8 Beta from FreeBSD 7

[Charlie Clark]

>Number:         138944
>Category:       i386
>Synopsis:       Cannot update to FreeBSD 8 Beta from FreeBSD 7
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-i386
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          update
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Fri Sep 18 18:40:00 UTC 2009
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Charlie Clark
>Release:        FreeBSD 7.2
>Organization:
Clark Consulting & Research
>Environment:
freebsd.local 7.2-RELEASE-p2 FREEBSD 7.2-RELEASE-p2 #0 Wed Jun 24 00:57:44 UTC 2009 root at i386-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/src/sys/GENERIC i386
>Description:
I have Parallels virtual machine running FreeBSD. Releases 6 & 7 work fine so I'd tried updating to 8. I get kernel crash (but carry on using FreeBSD afterwards) and some services such as networking don't work. I am not sure if this is a FreeBSD issue or parallels one and have submitted a bug to Parallels. Unfortunately I cannot provide a text dump of the crash but I could send a screenshot if this would help.

Rollback to FreeBSD works fine - great!
>How-To-Repeat:
Install FreeBSD using the image provided on the Parallels website and try to update to 8.4 beta via 7.
>Fix:


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