Recipe for compiling and installing CURRENT on 12.x RELEASE in a seperate boot env?

[Michael Schuster]

I have a slight correction to make (inline):

On Thu, Nov 5, 2020 at 8:59 PM Michael Schuster <michaelsprivate at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Problem: the AMD GPU (Vega10 Renoir) in my laptop is too new to be
> supported by 12.2 RELEASE, and I have it from reliable sources that CURRENT
> either already supports or soon will support this adapter thx to drm 5.5(?)
> being imported into CURRENT.
>
> The approach I've tried several times now goes as follows (following the
> outline of https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/makeworld.html):
>
> Since I use ZFS, I base my installation work on boot environments (I use
> bectl)
>
> On 12.2:
>
>    1. cd /usr/src , svn up
>    2. make buildworld
>    3. make buildkernel
>    4. create a new boot env,
>    5. make installkernel into new BE, reboot into new BE
>    6. make installworld
>
> another reboot here; this is when mounting of zfs volumes fails, not at
step 5
regards
Michael

>
>    1. mergemaster
>
> [ this may a be a bit imprecise in the details, I do this only once in a
> while ]
>
> The problem with this approach is that when I reboot (step 5b), none of
> the ZFS volumes (except  "/") is mounted, therefore no $HOME, therefore no
> X.
>
> So ... I'm probably doing something wrong, I just don't know what.
>
> I'd be surprised if I were the only one trying this approach ... so, does
> anyone have (a link to) a tested recipe to address this kind of problem?
>
> TIA
> Michael
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> Michael Schuster
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