upgrade packs

2010-04-10 Thread Gergo Szakal
DragonFly still lacks binary upgrades which makes upgrades on older computers a real PITA. While dealing with this in the last few days an idea popped into my head for at least partially resolving this: upgrade packs. These are basically source trees on which buildworld and buildkernel has already

Re: 2.6 upgrade: no root partition

2010-04-10 Thread Jan Lentfer
Gergo Szakal schrieb: I have just upgraded to 2.6. Compiled everything as per the default settings, installed and after the reboot, I get the well-known ffs_mountroot: can't find rootvp message. Which fs is your ROOT fs? Jan

Re: 2.6 upgrade: no root partition

2010-04-10 Thread Jan Lentfer
Gergo Szakal schrieb: Some additional information: I burned a 2.6 is and booting from that, I can access the partitions. So I smell a configuration issue on my end but have no idea where the problem can be. ok, then paste the /boot/loader.conf from the system here and also the dmesg from when

Re: upgrade packs

2010-04-10 Thread Justin C. Sherrill
On Sat, April 10, 2010 8:18 am, Gergo Szakal wrote: These are basically source trees on which buildworld and buildkernel has already been performed. If one tar's these up and shares them, the end-user would only have to download and unpack them, followed by an

Re: upgrade packs

2010-04-10 Thread Jan Lentfer
Justin C. Sherrill schrieb: You could probably try this with two separate virtual machines - 1 2.4 and 1 2.6. Hint hint. Don't even need 2 VMs, 2 repositories one with 2.4 and one with 2.6 would be sufficient because they will end up in 2 different objdirs. Actually that is how I am keeping

Re: upgrade packs

2010-04-10 Thread Samuel J. Greear
On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 8:27 AM, Jan Lentfer jan.lent...@web.de wrote: Justin C. Sherrill schrieb: You could probably try this with two separate virtual machines - 1 2.4 and 1 2.6.  Hint hint. Don't even need 2 VMs, 2 repositories one with 2.4 and one with 2.6 would be sufficient because

Re: upgrade packs

2010-04-10 Thread Samuel J. Greear
The source(s) for the client and build tools for freebsd-update are available. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/projects/freebsd-update-server/ http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/usr.sbin/freebsd-update/ Sam Sascha was kind enough to point out that Matthias has already ported

CD boot panic (2.6.1)

2010-04-10 Thread Kiril Mitev
Greetings list, Just tried the 2.6.1 boot CD on my just a random desktop box which panicked. Follows is an abbreviated hand-scribed verion of the screen messages: ...stuff... ata6: ATA channel 0 on atapci3 ata7: ATA channel 1 on atapci3 panic: ohci_add_done: addr 0x7b4c6f90 not found Trace