Re: Upgrade to 11.1-RELEASE fails to boot on aws EC2.

[Peter Ankerstål]

> On 28 Jul 2017, at 23:28, Peter Ankerstål  wrote:
> 
>> 
>>> On 28 Jul 2017, at 12:41, Peter Ankerstål  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/
>>> 

I just installed a new VM and moved the data instead.



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Re: Upgrade to 11.1-RELEASE fails to boot on aws EC2.

[Peter Ankerstål]

> 
>> On 28 Jul 2017, at 12:41, Peter Ankerstål  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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Re: Upgrade to 11.1-RELEASE fails to boot on aws EC2.

[Colin Percival]

On 07/28/17 03:41, Peter Ankerst�l wrote:
> 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.

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.

-- 
Colin Percival
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Upgrade to 11.1-RELEASE fails to boot on aws EC2.

[Peter Ankerstål]

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.



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