going from 6.2 to 6.3 and custom kernel

[Zbigniew Szalbot]

One more thought...

2008/1/21, Zbigniew Szalbot <zszalbot at gmail.com>:
> Hello again,
>
> 2008/1/21, Manolis Kiagias <sonicy at otenet.gr>:
> >
> >
> > Zbigniew Szalbot wrote:
> > > 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
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > Problem is if you run freebsd-update install a second time, I believe it
> > will install the rest of the system, as it has already installed the kernel.
> >  From your /boot/ directory I see no /kernel directory, I assume you
> > moved it to mykernel.old
>
> Yes, I did. I was then going to copy GENRIC when it turned out there is none.
>
> > However the /kernel.old directory has a today's date, while normally
> > this is only changed when you recompile a new kernel. Is it possible
> > there was a GENERIC kernel in there that was updated?
> > I am just speculating here, but you could try the following:
> >
> > - Reboot
> > - Escape to loader prompt
> > - unload
> > - load /boot/kernel.old/kernel
> > - boot
> >
> > and see if uname -a shows a 6.3-RELEASE
> >
> > Before this, you may want to take a look at the dates of the files
> > inside /boot/kernel.old to see if they are updated
>
> I don't think they are updated. The date for all of them is Jul 4 2007
> which is when I upgraded to 6.2 (I think or when I last compiled the
> kernel)
>
> $ ls -la /boot/kernel.old |less
> total 22958
> drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel     9728 Jan 21 07:21 .
> drwxr-xr-x  6 root  wheel      512 Jan 21 07:21 ..
> -r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel    13163 Jul  4  2007 3dfx.ko
> -r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel     4948 Jul  4  2007 3dfx_linux.ko
> -r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel    55673 Jul  4  2007 aac.ko
> -r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel     4427 Jul  4  2007 aac_linux.ko
> -r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel     3296 Jul  4  2007 accf_data.ko
> -r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel     5868 Jul  4  2007 accf_http.ko
> -r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel   369012 Jul  4  2007 acpi.ko
> -r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel    18136 Jul  4  2007 acpi_asus.ko
> -r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel    12062 Jul  4  2007 acpi_fujitsu.ko
> -r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel    15152 Jul  4  2007 acpi_ibm.ko
> -r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel    10558 Jul  4  2007 acpi_panasonic.ko
> -r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel     6599 Jul  4  2007 acpi_sony.ko
> -r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel    12183 Jul  4  2007 acpi_toshiba.ko
> -r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel    17119 Jul  4  2007 acpi_video.ko
> -r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel    86198 Jul  4  2007 agp.ko
> -r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel    25105 Jul  4  2007 aha.ko
> -r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel    18784 Jul  4  2007 ahb.ko
> -r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel   139328 Jul  4  2007 ahc.ko
> -r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel     7787 Jul  4  2007 ahc_eisa.ko
> -r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel     8541 Jul  4  2007 ahc_isa.ko
>
> What are my choices now? I cannot reboot as it won't run without a
> generic kernel. I cannot go back to 6.2 as I have already used
> install...?

Would it matter that I did the upgrade procedure:
sh freebsd-update.sh -f freebsd-update.conf -r 6.3-RELEASE upgrade
serveral times?

I had problems with system asking for file comparison, which I
described here (and I wanted to have another look at them):

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2008-January/166804.html

Could this be why I have no GENERIC kernel?

Thanks!

Zbigneiw Szalbot