upgrade to 6 ->build kernel error

[Kris Kennaway]

On Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 07:57:59PM +0100, Efren Bravo wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I upgraded from 5.4-RELEASE-i386 to
> 6.0-RELEASE-i386 and everything went well but
> when I tried to rebuild the kernel, I get these
> errors:
> 
> # pwd
> /usr/src/sys/i386/conf
> # config MYKERNEL
> ../../conf/files: coda/coda_fbsd.c must be
> optional, mandatory or standard
> # cd ../compile/MYKERNEL
> # make depend
> make: don't know how to make depend. Stop
> 
> What is happening? I tried with original GENERIC
> but I get the same errors....
> 
> Thanks...

You're not following the documented upgrade procedure (see the
Handbook).  This is *VERY IMPORTANT* when upgrading between different
releases of FreeBSD.  If you don't follow that path precisely you can
be left with an unbootable system or worse.

Kris

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