Re: Ok, so now what? Binary upgrade to 6.2-RELEASE fails

2007-11-26 Thread Clint Olsen
On Nov 11, Chris H. wrote: It's as simple as making your swap slice available for dumping, and adding a line in your rc.conf file. Of course you'll need to lift the information of interest from the vmcore, for the dump to be of any value. :)

Re: Ok, so now what? Binary upgrade to 6.2-RELEASE fails

2007-11-11 Thread [LoN]Kamikaze
Clint Olsen wrote: On Nov 02, [LoN]Kamikaze wrote: I think you might have no choice but to omit the reboots, because the world contains lots of stuff that has to do with the kernel (like mounting). So just go into single user mode and do the usual stuff: # make installkernel # mergemaster

Re: Ok, so now what? Binary upgrade to 6.2-RELEASE fails

2007-11-11 Thread Clint Olsen
On Nov 11, [LoN]Kamikaze wrote: That's strange, I've gone right from 5.3 through to RELENG_7 without ever doing the reboots during the install process (I know that's not recommended) and I never ran into trouble. Did you accidently turn off compat6x in the kernel before you built? Did your

Re: Ok, so now what? Binary upgrade to 6.2-RELEASE fails

2007-11-11 Thread Dimitry Andric
Clint Olsen wrote: I attempted to just do a binary upgrade, assuming that I botched the source upgrade somehow. After installing FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE, I was left with a system that would not boot (similar errors on boot as before). Any chance you could post some of these error messages? And

Re: Ok, so now what? Binary upgrade to 6.2-RELEASE fails

2007-11-11 Thread Clint Olsen
On Nov 11, Dimitry Andric wrote: Any chance you could post some of these error messages? And if possible, backtraces, etc? The messages amounted to page fault while in kernel mode or similar. The problem is the system attempts to reboot itself within 15 seconds. I know there is a way to

Re: Ok, so now what? Binary upgrade to 6.2-RELEASE fails

2007-11-11 Thread Chris H.
Quoting Clint Olsen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Nov 11, Dimitry Andric wrote: Any chance you could post some of these error messages? And if possible, backtraces, etc? The messages amounted to page fault while in kernel mode or similar. The problem is the system attempts to reboot itself within

Re: Ok, so now what? Binary upgrade to 6.2-RELEASE fails

2007-11-10 Thread Clint Olsen
On Nov 02, [LoN]Kamikaze wrote: I think you might have no choice but to omit the reboots, because the world contains lots of stuff that has to do with the kernel (like mounting). So just go into single user mode and do the usual stuff: # make installkernel # mergemaster -p # make