Re: same version upgrade i386 to amd64 gotchas?

2007-03-04 Thread Sam Smith
On Fri, 2 Mar 2007, Paul Pruett wrote: I copied a current i386 kernel from this week , and it rebooted okay on the athlon64 platform. To test I did a make for /usr/ports/sytutils/cdrtools and it did not complain, so thats a small warm fuzzy. Now I wait a week and see if it freezes/hangs

Re: same version upgrade i386 to amd64 gotchas?

2007-03-03 Thread Paul Pruett
The fix was just to remove PAE support from the i386 kernel (until the bug is found). So, try copying the latest snapshot kernel to /bsd and reboot. Just grab it from the snapshots/i386 directory on the ftp server. I copied a current i386 kernel from this week , and it rebooted okay on the

Re: same version upgrade i386 to amd64 gotchas?

2007-03-03 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2007/03/03 14:01, Paul Pruett wrote: Umm, it frooze/hung up again at 5:08 am. about 23 hours after rebooting with the current 4.1 kernel on the i386 4.0 userland (not recommended...I'm sure you know that already though) I was remote so I did not see the monitor for any panics, but

Re: same version upgrade i386 to amd64 gotchas?

2007-03-02 Thread Paul Pruett
The fix was just to remove PAE support from the i386 kernel (until the bug is found). So, try copying the latest snapshot kernel to /bsd and reboot. Just grab it from the snapshots/i386 directory on the ftp server. Agreed, I did not see a easy one line change to kernel compile to remove PAE

Re: same version upgrade i386 to amd64 gotchas?

2007-03-01 Thread Chris Cappuccio
The fix was just to remove PAE support from the i386 kernel (until the bug is found). So, try copying the latest snapshot kernel to /bsd and reboot. Just grab it from the snapshots/i386 directory on the ftp server. Some system utilities were converted to interact with the kernel using sysctl,

same version upgrade i386 to amd64 gotchas?

2007-02-27 Thread Paul Pruett
After consideration and due to weird problems afore discussed, I will likely be upgrading an openbsd 4.0 i386 server to an openbsd 4.0 amd64. Yes in retrospect I should have used the amd64 build not the i386 build on an athlon64 cpu... But I now have a 'production ' cyrus-imapd/sendmail server

Re: same version upgrade i386 to amd64 gotchas?

2007-02-27 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2007/02/27 17:03, Paul Pruett wrote: After consideration and due to weird problems afore discussed, I will likely be upgrading an openbsd 4.0 i386 server to an openbsd 4.0 amd64. A new i386 snapshot is very likely to fix this. I have upgraded version on i386 and on amd64, but never same

Re: same version upgrade i386 to amd64 gotchas?

2007-02-27 Thread Paul Pruett
I have received several assurances that -current may have resolved some weirds for i386 on amd64 processors... With hesitation I could try jumping to current instead of stable amd64. I have used -current on productin before, but only after verifying the ports could make w/o fubars Either amd64

Re: same version upgrade i386 to amd64 gotchas?

2007-02-27 Thread Nick Holland
Paul Pruett wrote: I have received several assurances that -current may have resolved some weirds for i386 on amd64 processors... With hesitation I could try jumping to current instead of stable amd64. I have used -current on productin before, but only after verifying the ports could