Upgrade to 11.1-RELEASE fails to boot on aws EC2.

[Peter Ankerstål]

> 
>> On 28 Jul 2017, at 12:41, Peter Ankerstål <peter at pean.org> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi!
>> 
>> It seems that FreeBSD 11.1-RELEASE also breaks on EC2 in some cases. I had this problem before when upgrading to 11.0. This problem was noticed in the ERRATA: https://www.freebsd.org/releases/11.0R/errata.html#open-issues
>> and later said to have been resolved with a EN: https://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-EN-16:18.loader.asc
>> 
>> Today I tried to upgrade a 11.0-RELEASE-p7 system to 11.1-RELEASE using the good old build world method as described in the handbook. But after reboot the machine hangs
>> in the loader. Reverting to a snapshot of / works fine but of course I have a lot of problems due to kernel/world mismatch. So I tried to copy the old /boot/ onto the newly updated
>> system and then it actually gets past the loader. But then fails to boot for some other reason unknown to me. (Because it does not give any video output)
>> 
>> I have also posted to the forums about this with a few screenshots and more details of what I have tried:
>> https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/61780/
>> 
>> /Peter.
>> 
> Do you know what version of FreeBSD this system was originally running?  It
> may be that there are other oddities in the old partitioning which cause
> problems for the newer loader code.
> 

It was installed late 2014 or very early 2015. So it must be 10.0 or 10.1. I cant remember exactly.


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