Cannot boot with newly compiled kernel, or kernel.old after upgrading to RELENG_6

[Kent Stewart]

On Sunday 04 December 2005 11:43 am, Torgeir Hoffmann wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have been so unfortunate to be left with a completely unusable
> system after updating to RELENG_6 from RELENG_5.
>

I read that the path was to RELENG_6_0_0_RELEASE and then to stable. I 
just finished upgrading 2 machines that way.

> I am quite sure that I followed the step from the handbook correctly,
> but as mentioned the system is unbootable.

Did you copy the 6.0 GENERIC config file into the one your buildkernel 
make uses?

>
> The error when trying to boot the new kernel makes the system reboots
> after 15 seconds, so I haven't had the opportunity to write that one
> down. However, the error message from when trying: "unload", "boot
> /boot/kernel.old/kernel" I was able to copy down in full (see
> bottom).

You should only load the 5-stable kernel and the boot -s. You have a 
mixed kernel and userland. You can't expect kernel.old and your 
6-stable userland to work.

>
> If I try to unload linux.ko by ' set linux_load="NO" ', it goes a bit
> further. I can only see "acpi.ko: could not finalize loading" flash
> by, and several "PNP0303 can't assign..." error messages before it
> mounts, it finishes to load ipfw2 and then suddenly it says
>
> 'Warning: Device driver " ' then nothing more on the line, then a
> similar error message to the one at bottom follows. (page fault).
> Reboots after 15 seconds.
>
>
> I really hope someone knows what this is all about - I have no idea
> why this is happening. Further I cannot understand why kernel.old
> doesn't work - after all I've used that kernel for 6 months without
> any issues. Mind that this is the GENERIC kernel, and it was compiled
> with unmodified conf.
>

But that was for a 5-stable userland. Now, your userland is 6.0. 

> Hope for quick reply,
>
> Best regards,
>
> Torgeir Hoffmann
>
>
>
> <-- Error message -->
>
> link_elf: symbol VOP_READDIR_APV undefined
> KLD file linux.ko - could not finalize loading.
> kernel trap 12 with interups disabled
>
> Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode.
> fault virtual address = 0x8
> fault code = supervisor read, page not present
> instruction pointer = 0x8:0xc060bdff
> stack pointer = 0x10:0xc1020d24
> frame pointer = 0x10:0xc1020d24
> code segment = base 0x0, limit 0xfffff, type x1b
>                     = DPL 0, pres 1, def32 1, gran 1
> processlr elfags = resume, IOPL = 0
> current process = 0 ()
> trap number  = 12
> panic: page fault
> uptime: 1s
>
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Kent Stewart
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