I just attempted a source upgrade from 5.5-STABLE to 6.3-PRERELEASE, and it was a disaster, more than likely because I forgot to do something. Normally I'm saved by the fact that the operations are not so scary as to cause problems.
Well, in this case after running 'make installkernel' and rebooting, the system did not come back up because it got kernel fatals on reboot (fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode). It appears that my filesystems got marked dirty in the reboot loop that ensued, and I had to manually fsck them. I figured after that it might boot, but alas problems remained, so after grabbing a disc1 image of 6.2 on CDROM I moved kernel.old back and kernel to kernel.bad. Now, sometimes I work fast and loose with the rules of upgrading, but I was surprised that I managed to royally screw up things. Any pointers would be appreciated before I shave off a few years of my life again. Thanks, -Clint _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
