freebsd downgrade

[Walter Hop]

> I had a problems with FreeBSD 10.2-BETA2. I used freebsd-update ugrade
> and update FreeBSD 10.1-RELEASE.
> Is it possible to downgrade BETA2 to 10.1-RELEASE with freebsd-update
> upgrade -r 10.1-RELEASE, please?

In my experience, downgrading with freebsd-update works fine, although I only went back from 10.1 to 9.3, but arguably that’s a much bigger jump. We’ve done it on around 40 machines over ssh. You just have to skip the initial reboot, in order to stay in the new kernel. Here is a blog post I wrote about it: https://lifeforms.nl/20141224/downgrading-with-freebsd-update/ <https://lifeforms.nl/20141224/downgrading-with-freebsd-update/>

I can’t guarantee that going back from 10.2 to 10.1 will work too; there might be problems, but if you try it, let me know your experiences and I’ll update the post.

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