On 2018-02-21, Nicolas Schmidt <schmi...@mathematik.hu-berlin.de> wrote: > Thanks Tim, that was right on the money! Indeed my „/bsd“ was a symbolic > link, pointing to „/bsd.mp“. Because the target path of the symlink was > absolute, when it tried to write the new kernel to „./mnt/bsd“ it of course > pointed to the ramdisk. > > After removing that symlink, the upgrade process went through without a hitch. > > TL;DR: Use relative paths when you symlink „/bsd“.
Better: don't symlink /bsd.