going from 6.2 to 6.3 and custom kernel
Zbigniew Szalbot
zszalbot at gmail.com
Sun Jan 20 22:44:09 PST 2008
Hello,
2008/1/21, Manolis Kiagias <sonicy at otenet.gr>:
> 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?
Yes, I did.
sh freebsd-update.sh -f freebsd-update.conf 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
Here they go:
FreeBSD domain.tld 6.2-RELEASE-p5 FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE-p5 #2: Wed Jul
4 13:29:40 CEST 2007 root at domain.tld:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/LISTS
i386
$ ls -la /boot
total 836
drwxr-xr-x 6 root wheel 512 Jan 21 07:21 .
drwxr-xr-x 23 root wheel 512 Jan 19 18:06 ..
-r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 7638 Jan 22 2007 beastie.4th
-r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 8192 Jan 21 07:21 boot
-r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 512 Jan 22 2007 boot0
-r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 512 Jan 21 07:21 boot0sio
-r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 512 Jan 22 2007 boot1
-r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 7680 Jan 21 07:21 boot2
-r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 1201 Jan 21 07:21 cdboot
drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Jan 21 07:21 defaults
-r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 1741 May 7 2006 device.hints
-r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 2249 Jan 22 2007 frames.4th
drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 9728 Jan 21 07:21 kernel.old
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 217088 Jan 21 07:21 loader
-r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 7772 Jan 22 2007 loader.4th
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 0 Sep 8 2006 loader.conf
-r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 15219 Jan 22 2007 loader.help
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 212992 May 7 2006 loader.old
-r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 389 May 7 2006 loader.rc
-r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 512 Jan 22 2007 mbr
drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 May 7 2006 modules
drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 9728 Jan 21 07:21 mykernel.old
-r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 219136 Jan 21 07:21 pxeboot
-r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 692 Jan 22 2007 screen.4th
-r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 36440 Jan 22 2007 support.4th
Thank you!
I can repeat upgrade/install procedure but will it help?
Thanks!
Zbigniew Szalbot
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