Meyendriesch, Burkard wrote:
hello folks,
on my Athlon64 based box I installed 5-CURRENT about a year
ago. Because at that time amd64 mode didn't work very well with a lot of ports I installed FreeBSD in i386 mode. Meanwhile I followed the release path to 5.3.Everything works very fine.
Now I want to use the full power of my 64 bit CPU. I cross compiled the kernel to amd64 mode (cd /usr/src; make kernel TARGET=amd64 TARGET_ARCH=amd64 KERNCONF=REINEKE64) and tried to reboot the machine with the new kernel. The kernel himself seems to work but when he tries to mount the root filesystem the system hangs. I think something in my migration is wrong.
Can someone please tell me the correct procedure to get my system work in amd64 mode without complete re-installation.
Thanks a lot
Burkard
Ouch! Before you read any further, let me state in no uncertain terms that I am not an expert!
Did you also make a world for the new target architecture? It would probably not be a Good Thing(tm) to have a kernel built for amd64 trying to work with an i386 userland, and that could be a possible, even likely, explanation for the failure to mount the fs ....
My tentative advice: Boot up with the old kernel, **make a complete backup**, and then either:
A> Try again with a full buildworld/buildkernel etc, routine, OR:
B> Contact the freebsd-amd64 list with a new question.
I'd probably recommend the latter first ...
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