upgrading 5.4 -> 6.0 without reinstalling. safe ?

[Jan Grant]

On Thu, 10 Nov 2005, Filip Lenaerts wrote:

> hi all
> 
> On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 11:17:13AM +0000, Jan Grant wrote:
> > 
> > FWIW I've just done a successful remote source-based upgrade from 5.4 to 
> > 6.0 (I'm brave) with no problems. I use a second root and /usr to be 
> 
> also did that last night with the latest sources, but failed when 
> booting in single user mode:  i get a kernel panic when the kernel is 
> loading the nvidia0 device.
> 
> > Providing you 
> > remember to rebuild or disable any 5.x-era kernel modules from ports 
> > (nvidia, rtc, etc) prior to the reboot it should work fine and offers a 
> 
> now this is interesting :)
> 
> i have a nvidia gforce 6600xl, but i can't remember installing/using 
> the nvidia port.  perhaps its installed as dependency of xorg?
> 
> moreover in the sources, there is also a agp_nvidia.c.  anyone perhaps 
> knows how this relates to the ports?  is it an equivalent?  are they 
> redundant to eachother?

You have an option to use the FreeBSD agp device support or nVidia's. I 
have no idea what criteria one might use to select between them.

> i'll try recompiling this evening the port and try a boot -s :)

If the device is loaded from /boot/loader.conf you might need to disable 
that in order for the boot to single-user to work. YMMV.


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