Upgrade from RELENG_4 to RELENG_5

Erik Trulsson ertr1013 at student.uu.se
Tue Feb 6 15:32:12 UTC 2007


On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 08:14:40AM -0700, hal wrote:
> I have done:
> 	cvsup RELENG_5
> 	
> 	make buildkernel
> 	make installkernel
> 
> All worked just fine ... but.  When I reboot, the boot process
> picks up the old 4 kernel.  How do I make the boot process
> pick up the new 5 kernel? What am I missing?

If you have not already done so I suggest you read
http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.4R/migration-guide.html (and of course
/usr/src/UPDATING) which describes
how to upgrade from 4.x to 5.x.  Follow those instructions closely -
upgrading from 4.x to 5.x is somewhat complicated.



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Erik Trulsson
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