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

Once in the past I had a years out of date version. Before the GIT 
transition, I wound up catching up by just going to the latest stable 
version. IIRC I went from like 6-stable to 10-stable but one version at 
a time instead of making a big leap.

Brian

On 1/23/2024 7:31 AM, Mario Marietto wrote:
> 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 :
>
>
>         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.