upgrade 5.2 -> 5.5

Lowell Gilbert freebsd-questions-local at be-well.ilk.org
Wed Apr 5 13:40:32 UTC 2006


"Perttu Laine" <plaine at gmail.com> writes:

> I tried to upgrade 5.2 to 5.5 and buildworld, buildkernel and installkernel
> went just fine. reboot didn't. It halts on this with new kernel:
> 
> atapci0: <Intel PIIX4 UDMA33 controller> port 0xfff0-0xffff at device 2.1 on
> pci0
> ata0: at 0x1f0 irq 14 on atapci0
> ata1: at 0x170 irq 15 on atapci0
> 
> after that nothing. kernel build with same config (generic) than old one and
> it boots just fine.
> So what could be wrong with this?

If you build the kernel with the GENERIC configuration as is
  *currently* in 5.5, does that boot?

Can you boot from the install floppies for 5.5?


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