1) The upgrade errored out almost immediately on /var/empty, since it had been chflags'ed to nschg. I went to the shell and chflags'ed that off, and upgrade continued.

It's supposed to be that way, so something is wrong if this is causing
problems :(

Agreed. :) Looking through the source to sysinstall, it looks like I should have a /boot/kernel.prev, but I don't. Perhaps the install of base went more poorly than I thought? I wound up not having /boot/kernel at all.

2) The 'kernels' distribution wasn't installed at all, which led loader to complain upon reboot. I had an old kernel installed, so I booted from that and used sysinstall to install GENERIC. I also had to change loader.conf to reference 'kernel="GENERIC"'. Is this the preferred way to do it, or should I move 'GENERIC' to 'kernel'?

It should be installed as kernel.  Again I don't know how you got
something else :(

Hm. I will try to reinstall with 6.0-RELEASE and try to do the binary upgrade again, and see what happens. Things will be different; this system was my first attempt to go to STABLE before I upgraded it so I can't rule out errors of my own in this case.

Thanks,
Marty
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