does sysinstall's "Upgrade" ever use the local system's shell?

2007-12-10 Thread Royce Williams
Question: Does the sysinstall "Upgrade" option have a dependency on the local system's sh at any time during the install? Details: I have a system that I'm trying to rescue. It has a mix of 6.2-SECURITY and 6.3-BETA components due to a failure during the freebsd-update minor-upgrade procedur

Interjet requires warm reboot from 5.x boot loader?

2005-02-27 Thread Royce Williams
When warm/cold booting an Interjet under FreeBSD 5.2.1 or 5.3 (vanilla installs), kernel loading fails. The only workaround I've figured out so far is to reboot from the boot loader "OK" prompt, as shown below. I'm not skilled in the hardware troubleshooting arena, so I'm stumped. I've searched f