5.4 to 6.0 upgrade

Kris Kennaway kris at obsecurity.org
Tue Nov 8 19:48:38 GMT 2005


On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 08:38:00AM -0500, Tsu-Fan Cheng wrote:
> Hi fbsder,
> I just upgraded my 5.4 to 6.0 last night and encounter some problems, please
> forgive me if this has already been brought up...
> I cvsup the source by changing RELENG_5 to RELENG_6, do the cvsup and follow
> the old routine (make buildowlrd.... mergemaster..), after reboot, I noticed
> that
> (1) my system is still called FREEBSD 5.4,

This tells you right here that you didn't, in fact, upgrade to
RELENG_6.  Check that your source was completely updated, and that you
precisely followed the upgrade instructions in UPDATING or the
handbook.  At a guess, you omitted the step when you build and install
the new kernel.

Kris
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