> >> On 28 Jul 2017, at 12:41, Peter Ankerstål <pe...@pean.org> wrote: >> >> Hi! >> >> It seems that FreeBSD 11.1-RELEASE also breaks on EC2 in some cases. I had >> this problem before when upgrading to 11.0. This problem was noticed in the >> ERRATA: https://www.freebsd.org/releases/11.0R/errata.html#open-issues >> and later said to have been resolved with a EN: >> https://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-EN-16:18.loader.asc >> >> Today I tried to upgrade a 11.0-RELEASE-p7 system to 11.1-RELEASE using the >> good old build world method as described in the handbook. But after reboot >> the machine hangs >> in the loader. Reverting to a snapshot of / works fine but of course I have >> a lot of problems due to kernel/world mismatch. So I tried to copy the old >> /boot/ onto the newly updated >> system and then it actually gets past the loader. But then fails to boot for >> some other reason unknown to me. (Because it does not give any video output) >> >> I have also posted to the forums about this with a few screenshots and more >> details of what I have tried: >> https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/61780/ >> >> /Peter. >> > Do you know what version of FreeBSD this system was originally running? It > may be that there are other oddities in the old partitioning which cause > problems for the newer loader code. >
It was installed late 2014 or very early 2015. So it must be 10.0 or 10.1. I cant remember exactly.
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