Re: Upgrading Question

From: Laurent C (laurent.bar_at_gmail.com)
Date: 11/28/05

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    Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 11:28:04 +0100
To: yraffah@savola.com

    2005/11/26, Yousef Raffah <yraffah@savola.com>:
    >
    > Hello Everyone,

    Hello,

    I just thought of upgrading from FreeBSD 6 BETA5 to 6-STABLE so I
    > followed the http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/makeworld.html manual
    > page.
    > I reached to a point where I had to reboot into single user mode to
    > continue with make installworld and mergemaster but I wasn't able to
    > boot into single user mode. The machine was hanging saying:
    >
    > Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/ad0s2a

     Did the prompt ask you to enter a shell path after this message ?
    If yes, you can try to press "Enter" then type mount -a, and your slices in
    /etc/fstab will be mounted, letting you continue in single user.

    That's a thing I had when upgrading from 5.4 to 6-stable

    I tried and tried and kept on trying with no luck, I disable some
    > modules during kernel bootup and unset some variables but no luck!
    >
    > Anyhow, one of the guys on IRC told me to build a GENERIC kernel to at
    > least boot so I built it but it panicked!
    >
    > My only way to boot my system now is going to the loader prompt and
    > boot /boot/kernel.old/kernel
    >
    > No here comes my question, by booting this way, can I still create a new
    > GENERIC kernel in order to upgrade my system? I would really appreciate
    > your advice

    I think that if you can (almost) boot with your old kernel, you must keep
    it, and try to add some drivers on it. 

    --
Laurent
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