Re: Transition from 5.1-RELEASE-p10 to 5.3-BETA2

From: Achilleus Mantzios (achill_at_matrix.gatewaynet.com)
Date: 08/30/04

  • Next message: Vladimir Grebenschikov: "acpi_video on SONY VAIO PCG-Z1 [was: acpi_video users needed]" 
    Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 08:43:35 +0300 (EEST)
To: Tim Robbins <tjr@freebsd.org>

    O kyrios Tim Robbins egrapse stis Aug 29, 2004 :

    > On Sun, Aug 29, 2004 at 09:58:41AM +0300, Achilleus Mantzios wrote:
    > > Hi, after make buildworld,make buildkernel, make install kernel
    > > i rebooted single-user, just to find out that
    > > ls, mount, etc.. gave
    > > ls exited with signal 12,
    > > bad system call.
    > >
    > > After i rebooted with the old 5.1 kernel and did make buildkernel
    > > *with* COMPAT_FREEBSD4, i could reboot single user with
    > > 5.3 and run ls,mount, etc... just fine.
    >
    > This was covered by the 20031112 entry in /usr/src/UPDATING. As a general
    > rule, you should use GENERIC instead of a custom kernel configuration (or a
    > GENERIC config from a previous release) when updating, at least on branches
    > that aren't marked -STABLE.
    >
    > > What has COMPAT_FREEBSD4 has to do, since i *didnt* have it in my
    > > 5.1-RELEASE-p10, and no FreeBSD 4.x programs were run?
    >
    > I believe the rationale was that no -STABLE releases after FreeBSD 4
    > used the old statfs() interface. I agree that the name is misleading.
    >

    Thanx.

    >
    > Tim
    > 

    -- 
-Achilleus
_______________________________________________
freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list
http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current
To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
  • Next message: Vladimir Grebenschikov: "acpi_video on SONY VAIO PCG-Z1 [was: acpi_video users needed]"