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Old 3rd August 2008
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Originally Posted by Weaseal View Post
So I am attempting a source upgrade from FreeBSD 6.3 to FreeBSD 7.0-p3, and the world and kernel compiled fine, but when I ran make installkernel:
When doing upgrades across major versions, it's always a good idea to compile and install GENERIC. Get things installed and working, then compile a custom kernel.

Also, you can use KODIR=/boot/testkernel on the installkernel command to install the kernel to a separate directory. Then you can use the nextboot(8) command to test boot that kernel. If it doesn't work, a reboot will use the previously working kernel.

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My kernel config:
Code:
$ cat RELNKERN7

cpu             HAMMER
ident           GENERIC
The ident line has to match the name of the kernel config file.
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