Greetings all,
I decided to upgrade from 12.3-RELEASE to 13.1-RELEASE, which is allegedly supported, since I have a GENERIC kernel.
Since I am paranoid, I first executed:
and rebooted the machine:
Then I executed:
After merging about several files, I rebooted the machine again:
at which the machine was sitting like a dead duck.
I did not panic yet, as I initialized BE, and by restarting the machine, and selecting Option 8 "Boot Environments"
and further 2, I saw the "default" being "12.3-RELEASE". The machine appears to go through a boot sequence, but ends with a message:
However, it has been presenting the message for about an hour, so I do not think that this is a solution.
Option 3 then ends with the same message
As the last resort, I loaded Option
, which was successful.
So, I am not sure, what to do now. From what I understand, since the BE did not work as advertised, I am running the old kernel with some of the different configuration files - due to the merge, which does not seem like a good thing. Can I somehow get to the original 12.3 configuration? Should I re-attempt the upgrade again? Should I just re-install?
Any help would be appreciated.
Kindest regards,
M
I decided to upgrade from 12.3-RELEASE to 13.1-RELEASE, which is allegedly supported, since I have a GENERIC kernel.
Since I am paranoid, I first executed:
# freebsd-update fetch
# freebsd-update install
, and rebooted the machine:
# shutdown -r now
.Then I executed:
# freebsd-update upgrade -r 13.1-RELEASE
# freebsd-update install
After merging about several files, I rebooted the machine again:
# shutdown -r now
, and was rewarding by:
Code:
. . .
loading required module 'kernel'
module 'kernel' exists but with wrong version
I did not panic yet, as I initialized BE, and by restarting the machine, and selecting Option 8 "Boot Environments"
Code:
1. Back to main menu [Backspace]
2. Active: zfs:system/BE/default (1 of 3)
3. bootfs: zfs:system/BE/default
Code:
Starting background file checks in 60 seconds.
Option 3 then ends with the same message
Code:
. . .
loading required module 'kernel'
module 'kernel' exists but with wrong version
As the last resort, I loaded Option
Code:
6 Kernel: kernel.old (2 of 2),
So, I am not sure, what to do now. From what I understand, since the BE did not work as advertised, I am running the old kernel with some of the different configuration files - due to the merge, which does not seem like a good thing. Can I somehow get to the original 12.3 configuration? Should I re-attempt the upgrade again? Should I just re-install?
Any help would be appreciated.
Kindest regards,
M