Re: How to upgrade an EOL FreeBSD release or how to make it working again

Now I tried to compile the kernel for armv7 taking the source code of
FreeBSD 13.0 and using FreeBSD 11.4 as os to compile it and I've got an
error that's similar to the previous one :

cc: error : linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see
invocation)
/mnt/ada0p2/usr/src/11.04-os/13.0-world-kernel-armv7 # make
TARGET_ARCH=armv7 KERNCONF=CHROMEBOOK-SNOW buildkernel

/tmp/hack-a5888be-o: file not recognized: file format not recognized
cc : error : linker command failed with exit 1 (use -v to see invocation)

On Tue, Jan 23, 2024 at 4:07 PM Mario Marietto <marietto2008@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hello.
>
> I tried to compile the kernel for armv7 taking the source code of FreeBSD
> 12.04 and using FreeBSD 11.4 as os to compile it and I've got this error :
>
> /mnt/ada0p2/usr/src/11.04-os/12.04-world-kernel-armv7 # make
> TARGET_ARCH=armv7 KERNCONF=CHROMEBOOK-SNOW buildkernel
>
> /tmp/hack-d033d3.o: file not recognized: file format not recognized
> cc : error : linker command failed with exit 1 (use -v to see invocation)
>
> I feel that it is not a huge error and I can fix it,but I don't know how.
> To be able to compile it on FreeBSD 12.04 would be a little success.
>
> On Mon, Jan 15, 2024 at 4:59 PM Mario Marietto <marietto2008@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hello to everyone.
>>
>> I'm trying to install FreeBSD 14 natively on my ARM Chromebook model
>> xe303c12 ; I've found only one tutorial that teaches how to do that,that's
>> it :
>>
>> https://wiki.freebsd.org/arm/Chromebook
>>
>> The problem is that it ends with the installation of FreeBSD 11,that's
>> very EOL.
>> I can't use it as is. I need to upgrade it to 14 (but I'm on arm 32
>> bit,that's TIER-2,so I can't upgrade it automatically using the
>> freebsd-update script. It is also true that I can't install 14 directly on
>> that machine,as you can read below :
>>
>>
>> [image: unnamed.png]
>>
>> I've looked all around and I found the tool pkgbase,that I'm talking
>> about on the FreeBSD forum,to understand if it allows the 11 to be usable
>> or upgradable. It does not seem to be the proper tool to achieve my goal.
>> Do you have any suggestions that can help me ? Thanks.
>>
>> --
>> Mario.
>>
>
>
> --
> Mario.
>


-- 
Mario.