going from 6.2 to 6.3 and custom kernel

[Manolis Kiagias]

Zbigniew Szalbot wrote:
> Here they go:
>
> FreeBSD domain.tld 6.2-RELEASE-p5 FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE-p5 #2: Wed Jul
> 4 13:29:40 CEST 2007     root at domain.tld:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/LISTS
> i386
>
> $ ls -la /boot
> total 836
> drwxr-xr-x   6 root  wheel     512 Jan 21 07:21 .
> drwxr-xr-x  23 root  wheel     512 Jan 19 18:06 ..
> -r--r--r--   1 root  wheel    7638 Jan 22  2007 beastie.4th
> -r--r--r--   1 root  wheel    8192 Jan 21 07:21 boot
> -r--r--r--   1 root  wheel     512 Jan 22  2007 boot0
> -r--r--r--   1 root  wheel     512 Jan 21 07:21 boot0sio
> -r--r--r--   1 root  wheel     512 Jan 22  2007 boot1
> -r--r--r--   1 root  wheel    7680 Jan 21 07:21 boot2
> -r--r--r--   1 root  wheel    1201 Jan 21 07:21 cdboot
> drwxr-xr-x   2 root  wheel     512 Jan 21 07:21 defaults
> -r--r--r--   1 root  wheel    1741 May  7  2006 device.hints
> -r--r--r--   1 root  wheel    2249 Jan 22  2007 frames.4th
> drwxr-xr-x   2 root  wheel    9728 Jan 21 07:21 kernel.old
> -r-xr-xr-x   1 root  wheel  217088 Jan 21 07:21 loader
> -r--r--r--   1 root  wheel    7772 Jan 22  2007 loader.4th
> -rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel       0 Sep  8  2006 loader.conf
> -r--r--r--   1 root  wheel   15219 Jan 22  2007 loader.help
> -r-xr-xr-x   1 root  wheel  212992 May  7  2006 loader.old
> -r--r--r--   1 root  wheel     389 May  7  2006 loader.rc
> -r--r--r--   1 root  wheel     512 Jan 22  2007 mbr
> drwxr-xr-x   2 root  wheel     512 May  7  2006 modules
> drwxr-xr-x   2 root  wheel    9728 Jan 21 07:21 mykernel.old
> -r--r--r--   1 root  wheel  219136 Jan 21 07:21 pxeboot
> -r--r--r--   1 root  wheel     692 Jan 22  2007 screen.4th
> -r--r--r--   1 root  wheel   36440 Jan 22  2007 support.4th
>
> Thank you!
>
> I can repeat upgrade/install procedure but will it help?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Zbigniew Szalbot
>
>
>   
Problem is if you run freebsd-update install a second time, I believe it 
will install the rest of the system, as it has already installed the kernel.
 From your /boot/ directory I see no /kernel directory, I assume you 
moved it to mykernel.old
However the /kernel.old directory has a today's date, while normally 
this is only changed when you recompile a new kernel. Is it possible 
there was a GENERIC kernel in there that was updated?
I am just speculating here, but you could try the following:

- Reboot
- Escape to loader prompt
- unload
- load /boot/kernel.old/kernel
- boot

and see if uname -a shows a 6.3-RELEASE

Before this, you may want to take a look at the dates of the files 
inside /boot/kernel.old to see if they are updated