Hi, I boot the system by manually loading the kernel. I have used the upgrade procedure at least 20 times with no problems. Can anyone suggest a route to go that would redo the upgrade ??
thanks Doron ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Meyer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Doron Shmaryahu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "FreeBSD-questions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, January 17, 2003 4:35 AM Subject: Re: Make World Steps > In <021201c2bdba$19a55eb0$0801a8c0@dman>, Doron Shmaryahu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed: > This sequence > > > make buildworld; > > make buildkernel KERNCONF=KERNEL > > make installkernel KERNCONF=KERNEL > > mergemaster -p > > make installworld > > mergemaster > > reboot > > leaves out the very important step of doing a reboot between the make > installkernel and the make installworld. You've just found out > why. Your new kernel isn't booting for some reason. If you had found > that out before doing the installworld, backing out the kernel would > be trivial and you'd have your old system back to work on the problems > presented by the new kernel. > > The one thing that isn't clear from your messages is what the kernels > you have rebuilt are doing. If they are going to "btx halted", then > try building a kernel with debugging built in, and follow the steps in > the writeup on freebsd.org for debugging kernel problems with kdb. > > If your new kernels are booting fine but ps and top are failing, then > you're managing to boot without going through the full boot loader > sequence, as that loads the kernel module and sets some symbols. I > don't think this is the case, but if it is, how are you booting the > system? > > <mike > -- > Mike Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.mired.org/consulting.html > Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
