Re: Upgrading to current by compiling leads to failed boot

2019-12-07 Thread Edgar Pettijohn



On 2019-12-07 15:38, Carolyn "Lynn" Knight-Serrano wrote:

Howdy! I'm trying to upgrade a NetBSD-9.0_RC1 install to current but I'm having 
a strange issue. I followed the documentation for compiling and upgrading 
netbsd to current exactly but when I try to boot, the bootloader says /netbsd 
and all the sets can't be found.
-/-\-/-\-/-

Carolyn "Lynn" Knight-Serrano [xe/xem/xyr/xemself]

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Which documentation? There unfortunantly is stuff spread everywhere. I 
personally would recommend downloading the install kernel and put the 
sets on a usb stick, and use sysinst to upgrade. It is much more user 
friendly, plus it doesn't take near as long.


Good luck.


Edgar



Upgrading to current by compiling leads to failed boot

2019-12-07 Thread Carolyn "Lynn" Knight-Serrano
Howdy! I'm trying to upgrade a NetBSD-9.0_RC1 install to current but I'm having 
a strange issue. I followed the documentation for compiling and upgrading 
netbsd to current exactly but when I try to boot, the bootloader says /netbsd 
and all the sets can't be found. 
-/-\-/-\-/-

Carolyn "Lynn" Knight-Serrano [xe/xem/xyr/xemself]

PGP Fingerprint: 0xf02b733b4382e451c8c2fff550858748146544cb

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