I upgraded two Soekris boxen, a net4801 and net6501, to 6.0
On the net4801, I was using both a compact flash (boot) and an external usb
thumb drive (mass storage) , /dev/sda1 and /dev/sdb1 respectively. After
the upgrade, these were swapped. Other than a little confusion on my part
while I straightened this out, after the upgrade everything worked fine.
Only had to edit leaf.cfg and syslinux.cfg, and change fstab for mounting
the thumb drive.
Without the usb thumb drive inserted, the interior CF flash reverted to
/dev/sda1.
Thanks,
Tim
On Sun, Oct 23, 2016 at 11:26 AM, kp kirchdoerfer <
kap...@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> Hi all
>
> After a year development started and five month after the first alpha
> release
> a new major version of LEAF Bering-uClibc is considered stable.
>
> Major features of the 6.0.0 version are:
> * upgrading uClibc to uClibc-ng, receiving maintenance and regular updates
> (1.0.17)
> * upgrading to current LTS Linux kernel 4.4 (4.4.26)
> * initmod.lrp has been removed, after having been splitted from initrd.lrp
> four years ago.
> The kernel drivers previously loaded from initmod.lrp are now either
> included
> in the kernel or
> will be loaded by demand, like shorewall init does.
> This way we free up RAM and it will improve boot time significantly.
> * a new WRAP optimized kernel and image is provided
> * firmware is saved via local.lrp
> * logrotation has been improved (see /etc/logrotate.d/syslog)
> In addition /var/log/messages has been removed, previously containing
> entries
> also available in other
> log files and therefore only wasting (RAM) space.
> * A new package libpam to support PAM access with openvpn has been added
> (Thx
> to dino muzic for his help getting that done)
> * perl has been updated to 5.24.0
> * The Raspberry image, still a proof of concept, supports booting with
> device
> tree (and overlays)
> * Support for PCEngines APU2 incl watchdog support and booting from SD card
>
> Most of the remaining packages has received updates to the latest
> upstream versions.
> See https://bering-uclibc.zetam.org/wiki/Bering-uClibc_6.0.x_-_Changelog
> for more details.
>
> * Upgrade considerations
> Please note: Due to the removal of initmod upgrading from 5.x to 6.0.0 will
> not work as seamless as usual.
> If you don't setup a new router from scratch, be aware that you have to
> change
> syslinux.cfg otherwise it may fail to boot.
>
> To get an upgrade properly done, you need to replace
> DEFAULT linux initrd=/initrd.lrp,/initmod.lrp
> with
> DEFAULT linux initrd=/initrd.lrp
>
> (See also https://bering-uclibc.zetam.org/wiki/Bering-uClibc_6.x_-_
> User_Guide_-_Appendices_-_Upgrading_from_Bering-uClibc_5.x)
>
> In the past the upgrade utility has been improved, but due to changes
> outlined
> above it won't work to use it to upgrade from 5.2.x to 6.0.0.
> As a result we do not offer 6.0.0 for the upcoming weeks. Once we add
> 6.0.0 to
> latest or stable, please do not use upgrade to update your 5.2.x router
> without taking the above made considerations seriously.
> It may work, if you change syslinux.cfg by hand, but it isn't recommended
> unless you have a backup or using dual boot.
>
> With 6.0.0 becoming stable, the 5.2 series will be put on hold with one,
> final
> release left for 5.2.8.
>
> kp
>
>
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