9-stable from i386 to amd64

Doug Barton dougb at FreeBSD.org
Sat Feb 11 05:48:21 UTC 2012


On 02/10/2012 20:56, Randy Bush wrote:
> is there a recipe for moving from i386 to amd64?

Other than backup and reinstall, no. As you already discovered the old
world won't run on the new kernel. Installing the new world before
reboot isn't safe either, as at some point in the process it'll blow up.


Sorry,

Doug

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