On Wed, 20 Dec 2023, Greg Troxel wrote: > - beware that 5->10 is almost certainly not going to work. I have > generally been doing N->N+1 on most machines, but had occasion to do > 5->9. I found that the 9 kernel would not boot. I then tried 7,
Does this mean the /netbsd 9 kernel itself wouldn't boot (never got to attempting /sbin/init)? Or that that /netbsd 9 kernel couldn't run NetBSD 7 /sbin/init and /etc/rc, etc? Or that the /netbsd 9 kernel couldn't run the NetBSD 9 /sbin/init etc, maybe due to some left over NetBSD 5 configs or executables? If so, how did you recover? > and 5->7 worked, and 7->9 worked. The downside is just boot > netbsd.ok, so it's not that bad, but I would go to 7 first, and then > to 9 or 10. I have a 7.0.2 system to update so thank you for your suggestions here. (I usually just extract the tar sets in place once I confirm the kernel boots, and postinstall and etcupdate.)
