Cannot boot with newly compiled kernel, or kernel.old after upgrading to RELENG_6

[Lars Kristiansen]

--On Sunday, December 04, 2005 12:03:15 PM -0800 Kent Stewart 
<kstewart at owt.com> wrote:

> On Sunday 04 December 2005 11:43 am, Torgeir Hoffmann wrote:
>> Hi,

Hei!

>> I have been so unfortunate to be left with a completely unusable
>> system after updating to RELENG_6 from RELENG_5.
>>
>
> I read that the path was to RELENG_6_0_0_RELEASE and then to stable. I
> just finished upgrading 2 machines that way.
>
>> I am quite sure that I followed the step from the handbook correctly,
>> but as mentioned the system is unbootable.
>
> Did you copy the 6.0 GENERIC config file into the one your buildkernel
> make uses?
>

Think I saw some others reported problems with the new acpi on some 
hardware.
Try to boot without it, "safe mode" in the bootmenu, I think.
You may find some more in the archives for both this list and 
freebsd-stable.

--
Hilsen Lars

>>
>> The error when trying to boot the new kernel makes the system reboots
>> after 15 seconds, so I haven't had the opportunity to write that one
>> down. However, the error message from when trying: "unload", "boot
>> /boot/kernel.old/kernel" I was able to copy down in full (see
>> bottom).
>
> You should only load the 5-stable kernel and the boot -s. You have a
> mixed kernel and userland. You can't expect kernel.old and your
> 6-stable userland to work.
>
>>
>> If I try to unload linux.ko by ' set linux_load="NO" ', it goes a bit
>> further. I can only see "acpi.ko: could not finalize loading" flash
>> by, and several "PNP0303 can't assign..." error messages before it
>> mounts, it finishes to load ipfw2 and then suddenly it says
>>
>> 'Warning: Device driver " ' then nothing more on the line, then a
>> similar error message to the one at bottom follows. (page fault).
>> Reboots after 15 seconds.
>>
>>
>> I really hope someone knows what this is all about - I have no idea
>> why this is happening. Further I cannot understand why kernel.old
>> doesn't work - after all I've used that kernel for 6 months without
>> any issues. Mind that this is the GENERIC kernel, and it was compiled
>> with unmodified conf.
>>
>
> But that was for a 5-stable userland. Now, your userland is 6.0.
>
>> Hope for quick reply,
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Torgeir Hoffmann
>>
>>
>>
>> <-- Error message -->
>>
>> link_elf: symbol VOP_READDIR_APV undefined
>> KLD file linux.ko - could not finalize loading.
>> kernel trap 12 with interups disabled
>>
>> Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode.
>> fault virtual address = 0x8
>> fault code = supervisor read, page not present
>> instruction pointer = 0x8:0xc060bdff
>> stack pointer = 0x10:0xc1020d24
>> frame pointer = 0x10:0xc1020d24
>> code segment = base 0x0, limit 0xfffff, type x1b
>>                     = DPL 0, pres 1, def32 1, gran 1
>> processlr elfags = resume, IOPL = 0
>> current process = 0 ()
>> trap number  = 12
>> panic: page fault
>> uptime: 1s
>>
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