freebsd stable - Nov 2012 - FreeBSD 9.1-RC3 Available...

The third release candidate of the 9.1-RELEASE release cycle is now
available on the FTP servers for amd64, i386, powerpc64, and sparc64.
The MD5/SHA256 checksums are at the bottom of this message.  The ISO
images and, for architectures that support it, the memory stick images
are available here:

  ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/ISO-IMAGES/9.1/

(or any of the FreeBSD mirror sites).

This is expected to be the last Release Candidate.  Unless a major
show-stopper is discovered within the next few days the final Release
Builds will be started.  If you notice any problems you can report them
through the normal Gnats PR system or here on the -stable mailing list.

If you want to do a source-based update to an existing system using SVN
the branch to use is releng/9.1.  If you would like to use CVS instead
use RELENG_9_1.

The freebsd-update(8) utility supports binary upgrades of i386 and amd64 
systems running earlier FreeBSD releases.  Systems running 9.0-RELEASE,
9.1-BETA1, 9.1-RC1, or 9.1-RC2 can upgrade as follows:

# freebsd-update upgrade -r 9.1-RC3

During this process, FreeBSD Update may ask the user to help by merging 
some configuration files or by confirming that the automatically performed
merging was done correctly.

# freebsd-update install

The system must be rebooted with the newly installed kernel before 
continuing.

# shutdown -r now

After rebooting, freebsd-update needs to be run again to install the new 
userland components, and the system needs to be rebooted again:

# freebsd-update install
# shutdown -r now

Users of earlier FreeBSD releases (FreeBSD 7.X, 8.X) can also use
freebsd-update to upgrade to FreeBSD 9.1-RC3, but will be prompted to
rebuild all third-party applications (e.g., anything installed from the
ports tree) after the second invocation of "freebsd-update install",
in
order to handle differences in the system libraries between FreeBSD 7.X
or FreeBSD 8.X and FreeBSD 9.X.

Checksums:

SHA256 (FreeBSD-9.1-RC3-amd64-bootonly.iso) =
86d57e699ae0e298a420ff168e6abe7b715e6dee8350149ed2f230885b1973ec
SHA256 (FreeBSD-9.1-RC3-amd64-disc1.iso) =
11c7e4ab16294794bf950073901f9a4dc8f735de08b02a321b63c4702af60f98
SHA256 (FreeBSD-9.1-RC3-amd64-memstick.img) =
ccd983a7e1f37c0bb4b87c6cacc3945d38be8add66ea0689c0b8e0a72c75ad58

MD5 (FreeBSD-9.1-RC3-amd64-bootonly.iso) = 278a0ee9e00dba88068f1ad1c509429c
MD5 (FreeBSD-9.1-RC3-amd64-disc1.iso) = 78ea831eaf495e2f713d5cd5ffc5f083
MD5 (FreeBSD-9.1-RC3-amd64-memstick.img) = f37c7ff68025bc065465d3d647b6e7e0

SHA256 (FreeBSD-9.1-RC3-i386-bootonly.iso) =
8b944a3b263de04db2e0cb38b068a4ceca6e2fe4f8af5344567696e09b7df66a
SHA256 (FreeBSD-9.1-RC3-i386-disc1.iso) =
e7c19e2aadb0c6ce072265511d84fd0d39c6e60628231d8dc31023d410e285d6
SHA256 (FreeBSD-9.1-RC3-i386-memstick.img) =
1ebb2ebf6b20376df7c3719f5b1bbbdd47ae2054e3a23019d8fdc93734f78fe5

MD5 (FreeBSD-9.1-RC3-i386-bootonly.iso) = f14703b350e7f2357d23250c6eeee4ef
MD5 (FreeBSD-9.1-RC3-i386-disc1.iso) = 13405032579c52182bedfcd84a294871
MD5 (FreeBSD-9.1-RC3-i386-memstick.img) = 515d0866470d2edd1d99867e83387c35

SHA256 (FreeBSD-9.1-RC3-powerpc64-bootonly.iso) =
b46212dc2fa3308fc58465bb999b4ec857245826fd1cb122af758e8b340afaf4
SHA256 (FreeBSD-9.1-RC3-powerpc64-memstick) =
bfda2bf019eb4c540d280608a81ba9d67402ab0248c38c33badb4548e725f657
SHA256 (FreeBSD-9.1-RC3-powerpc64-release.iso) =
b5e0948df8d7f62a7e620647d90c3c47f89ad71cf310277d86ef139c8ba25961

MD5 (FreeBSD-9.1-RC3-powerpc64-bootonly.iso) = d474edb9aac9aa5e9ad226a1e345cbd9
MD5 (FreeBSD-9.1-RC3-powerpc64-memstick) = aa443c1ae88773cc6c0a070ca2c6784f
MD5 (FreeBSD-9.1-RC3-powerpc64-release.iso) = 237aaf75f2f6b2192cf0e1f51c190dc8

SHA256 (FreeBSD-9.1-RC3-sparc64-bootonly.iso) =
e1d61b01ba8d03c324f0a828527741542fd0b337d3281b1f943658f5f482ae9e
SHA256 (FreeBSD-9.1-RC3-sparc64-disc1.iso) =
9b59c368f0572198ef9562c7f52a45ca33aa832d607c6331bd4ca796c5ca4d8f

MD5 (FreeBSD-9.1-RC3-sparc64-bootonly.iso) = e3e10bc7ce2a0377053cb2d7eff22538
MD5 (FreeBSD-9.1-RC3-sparc64-disc1.iso) = ab754ee5361a4c9b8d451b0eee080732


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Hi,
after upgrading Kernel from 9.1-RC2

# freebsd-update upgrade -r 9.1-RC3
# freebsd-update install
# shutdown -r now

the Kernel ist not booting. It just reboot's after the boot loader.
There no kernel.old. Safe mode also reboots.  What can I do to
recover the machine? (It was booting/running fine with 9.1-RC2)

Thanks for any help!

Regards,
Thomas.