Hello Everyone, I just thought of upgrading from FreeBSD 6 BETA5 to 6-STABLE so I followed the http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/makeworld.html manual page. I reached to a point where I had to reboot into single user mode to continue with make installworld and mergemaster but I wasn't able to boot into single user mode. The machine was hanging saying: Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/ad0s2a I tried and tried and kept on trying with no luck, I disable some modules during kernel bootup and unset some variables but no luck! Anyhow, one of the guys on IRC told me to build a GENERIC kernel to at least boot so I built it but it panicked! My only way to boot my system now is going to the loader prompt and boot /boot/kernel.old/kernel No here comes my question, by booting this way, can I still create a new GENERIC kernel in order to upgrade my system? I would really appreciate your advice -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 187 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part Url : http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/attachments/20051126/66fc97a9/attachment.bin
> Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/ad0s2a> I tried and tried and kept on trying with no luck, I > disable some modules during kernel bootup and unset some > variables but no luck!> Anyhow, one of the guys on IRC told me to build a GENERIC > kernel to at least boot so I built it but it panicked!There isn't any information in your bug report that we could use to help you out: - what kind of hardware does your machine have (the output of dmesg would be a good start)? - how did you checkout your source tree (which CVS tag did you use? - what is the panic message from the GENERIC kernel? - do you have any third-party kernel modules that you load in the kernel? -- FreeBSD Volunteer, http://people.freebsd.org/~jkoshy
2005/11/26, Yousef Raffah <yraffah@savola.com>:> > Hello Everyone,Hello, I just thought of upgrading from FreeBSD 6 BETA5 to 6-STABLE so I> followed the http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/makeworld.html manual > page. > I reached to a point where I had to reboot into single user mode to > continue with make installworld and mergemaster but I wasn't able to > boot into single user mode. The machine was hanging saying: > > Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/ad0s2aDid the prompt ask you to enter a shell path after this message ? If yes, you can try to press "Enter" then type mount -a, and your slices in /etc/fstab will be mounted, letting you continue in single user. That's a thing I had when upgrading from 5.4 to 6-stable I tried and tried and kept on trying with no luck, I disable some> modules during kernel bootup and unset some variables but no luck! > > Anyhow, one of the guys on IRC told me to build a GENERIC kernel to at > least boot so I built it but it panicked! > > My only way to boot my system now is going to the loader prompt and > boot /boot/kernel.old/kernel > > No here comes my question, by booting this way, can I still create a new > GENERIC kernel in order to upgrade my system? I would really appreciate > your adviceI think that if you can (almost) boot with your old kernel, you must keep it, and try to add some drivers on it. -- Laurent