going from 6.2 to 6.3 and custom kernel

[Manolis Kiagias]

Zbigniew Szalbot wrote:
> Hello,
>
>   
>>>> It will not update your kernel, but if you do freebsd-update install you
>>>> will get an updated GENERIC kernel in /boot/GENERIC.
>>>>
>>>> This is what I did:
>>>>
>>>> freebsd-update -r 6.3-RELEASE upgrade
>>>>
>>>> (got the warning you mentioned)
>>>>
>>>> freebsd-update install
>>>>
>>>> Got a message about installing kernel updates. Got a new generic kernel
>>>> in /boot/GENERIC (check to see this exists!)
>>>>         
>
> Yes, on the other machine there is no /boot/GENERIC
> So what do I do (I followed the steps you described).
>
> # locate GENERIC
> /usr/src/sys/alpha/conf/GENERIC
> /usr/src/sys/alpha/conf/GENERIC.hints
> /usr/src/sys/amd64/conf/GENERIC
> /usr/src/sys/amd64/conf/GENERIC.hints
> /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/GENERIC
> /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/GENERIC.hints
> /usr/src/sys/ia64/conf/GENERIC
> /usr/src/sys/ia64/conf/GENERIC.hints
> /usr/src/sys/pc98/conf/GENERIC
> /usr/src/sys/pc98/conf/GENERIC.hints
> /usr/src/sys/powerpc/conf/GENERIC
> /usr/src/sys/powerpc/conf/GENERIC.hints
> /usr/src/sys/sparc64/conf/GENERIC
> /usr/src/sys/sparc64/conf/GENERIC.hints
>
>
> Thanks!
>
> Zbigniew Szalbot
>
>   
So, you actually run freebsd-update install?

Running just the freebsd-update -r 6.3-RELEASE upgrade part will not 
install anything. You will have to run freebsd-update install, it will 
complain about not running a GENERIC kernel and install the new one in 
/boot/GENERIC. Although in my case I believe I already had a 
/boot/GENERIC kernel, and I think this was created by standard 
freebsd-update (i.e. when going from a -p# to another -p# while in 6.2)

Could you please send the output of uname -a and ls -la /boot