Re: [SAGE] FreeBSD 4.4-REL to FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE upgrade problem.

2003-07-10 Thread Joshua Oreman
On Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 08:53:02PM -0500 or thereabouts, Dustin Puryear wrote: > Before reading below: I am considering a new install rather than an upgrade > of our servers. However, now I just want to beat this problem. :) > > At 02:19 PM 7/8/2003 +, Phil Pennock wrote: > >On 2003-07-08 at

Re: [SAGE] FreeBSD 4.4-REL to FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE upgrade problem.

2003-07-09 Thread Dustin Puryear
At 07:05 PM 7/9/2003 -0700, David Wolfskill wrote: ># cd /etc ># mv MAKEDEV MAKEDEV.old ># cp /usr/src/etc/MAKEDEV . ># sh MAKEDEV all ># reboot Huh? I wouldn't expect MAKEDEV to live in /etc: g1-13(4.8-S)[1] ls /etc/MAK* ls: No match. g1-13(4.8-S)[2] uname -a FreeBSD g1-13.catwhisker.org 4.8-STA

Re: [SAGE] FreeBSD 4.4-REL to FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE upgrade problem.

2003-07-09 Thread Michael E. Mercer
Not sure if this is the problem but my copy of MAKEDEV only makes ad0 thru ad3 when you type sh MAKEDEV all You may still need to run sh MAKEDEV ad4 later MEM On Wed, 2003-07-09 at 21:53, Dustin Puryear wrote: > Before reading below: I am considering a new install rather than an upgrade > of o

Re: [SAGE] FreeBSD 4.4-REL to FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE upgrade problem.

2003-07-09 Thread Dustin Puryear
Before reading below: I am considering a new install rather than an upgrade of our servers. However, now I just want to beat this problem. :) At 02:19 PM 7/8/2003 +, Phil Pennock wrote: On 2003-07-08 at 14:09 +, Phil Pennock wrote: > There was a fairly major update to the IDE disk device

Re: FreeBSD 4.4-REL to FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE upgrade problem.

2003-07-08 Thread Kevin Oberman
> Date: Mon, 07 Jul 2003 17:07:39 -0500 > From: Dustin Puryear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > At 02:58 PM 7/7/2003 -0700, Freddie Cash wrote: > >On July 7, 2003 02:39 pm, you wrote: > > > At 02:27 PM 7/7/2003 -0700, Freddie Cash wrote: > > > >On July 7, 2003 02:19 pm, you wrot

Re: FreeBSD 4.4-REL to FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE upgrade problem.

2003-07-07 Thread Dustin Puryear
At 02:58 PM 7/7/2003 -0700, Freddie Cash wrote: On July 7, 2003 02:39 pm, you wrote: > At 02:27 PM 7/7/2003 -0700, Freddie Cash wrote: > >On July 7, 2003 02:19 pm, you wrote: > >There is a blurb near the top that mentions running pwd_mkdb with > > the -p option to rebuild the master password file.

Re: FreeBSD 4.4-REL to FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE upgrade problem.

2003-07-07 Thread Dustin Puryear
At 02:27 PM 7/7/2003 -0700, Freddie Cash wrote: On July 7, 2003 02:19 pm, you wrote: From the man page for mergemaster: -p Pre-buildworld mode. Compares only files known to be essen- tial to the success of {build|install}world, including /etc/make.co

Re: FreeBSD 4.4-REL to FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE upgrade problem.

2003-07-07 Thread Dustin Puryear
At 01:59 PM 7/7/2003 -0700, Freddie Cash wrote: > (/usr/src/Makefile comments) > 1. cd /usr/src > 2. make buildworld > 3. make buildkernel > 4. make installkernel > 5. reboot > 6. mergemaster -p There's your problem. You should run "mergemaster -p" as step 2. The -p means "Pre-buildworld". This w

Re: FreeBSD 4.4-REL to FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE upgrade problem.

2003-07-07 Thread Freddie Cash
On July 7, 2003 01:57 pm, Dustin Puryear wrote: > I have a test server that is being used to test a 4.4-REL to > 4.8-STABLE upgrade, and I've found the system will no longer boot > unless I load a saved 4.4-REL kernel. The error I get is along the > lines of: > Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad4s1a >

FreeBSD 4.4-REL to FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE upgrade problem.

2003-07-07 Thread Dustin Puryear
I sent this to freebsd-questions earlier via the newsgroup, but I just found out today that the list-to-news gateway has been down for half a month now. Any idea when it's going back up? Who was hosting that service anyway? And now for the question.. I have a test server that is being used to