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 Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.mired.org/consulting.html
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