upgrade issues with 9.0 to 9.1-RC2

ankscorek

ankscorek

Dear friends,

Hello how are you? I am a debian user who has recently migrated to FreeBSD and hence as such the teething issues.

I am facing a problem while upgrading from 9.0 to 9.1-RC2. I am dual booting debian and FreeBSD.

I do this
Code: 
freebsd-update upgrade -r 9.1-RC2
freebsd-update install

This is to be followed by
Code: 
reboot
freebsd-update install

However, after a reboot into this new upgraded environment all I get is a multi-colored pacman like look on the screen and even after waiting for hours no progress. This procedure I have tried 3 times every time the same results. It is only a fresh FreeBSD-9.0 install followed by an upgrade procedure each time.

Any hints or help will be appreciated.
 
It is a good alternative. I thought about it but then as a learning experience where could be the error? In debian I need not worry about any new releases as dist-upgrade takes care of it. How about it here?
 
Thanks speedy. I will give this a try over the weekend. As I was suspecting it is a kernel issue which has been nicely addressed in the chapter 25 of the handbook.
 
Code: 
cd /usr/ports/devel/subversion
make install         # Run this command without Xorg running if possible... CPU intensive.
rehash
svn co svn://svn0.us-west.FreeBSD.org/base/stable/9 /usr/src  # if /usr/src doesn't exist
Can't restest it here, but that may work... to replace cvsup (getting sources).
 
The svn method followed by make world etc method also had the same result with the pacman screen coming up on boot.
Any clues?

Is there a problem if I install FreeBSD using usb image?
 
ankscorek said:
the svn method followed by make world etc method also had the same result with the pacman screen coming up on boot..
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No idea what you're talking about there. Maybe post a picture somewhere? Possibly it's a problem with the boot manager. Not enough information to tell.

is there a probelm if i install freebsd using usb image?
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No, memory stick images are available for download.
 
I will click and upload the screen image. In the meantime I downloaded 9.1 RC3 image and installed it on the partition and got the same result. Here is my grub.cfg file as I am dual booting with debian. Any suggestions?

Code: 
menuentry 'FreeBSD' {
   insmod ufs2
   insmod bsd

   search --fs-uuid --no-floppy --set=root <some id>

   kfreebsd /boot/kernel/kernel
   kfreebsd_loadenv /boot/device.hints

   set kFreeBSD.vfs.root.mountfrom=ufs:/dev/ufsid/<some id>
   set kFreeBSD.vfs.root.mountfrom.options=rw
}

Do I need to add any module at boot time?
 
ankscorek said:
A screen full of all colors at each pixel and colors changing every second
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Cool!

Just a guess: grub is using a graphics mode, and it is not being reset properly before starting FreeBSD.

I saw similar problems with the old Via OpenChrome onboard video when leaving X. Eventually, the driver got better, but it still didn't always work. If that is the problem, the only real fix would be to add a different video card.
 
There is no graphics involved in this the moment I choose FreeBSD entry it has to point me to the kernel. And the kernel is acting weird.
 
Ok, I managed to solve it by changing the grub entry as under:-

Code: 
menuentry 'FreeBSD' {
#   insmod ufs2
#   insmod bsd

#   search --fs-uuid --no-floppy --set=root 50acd4912b9adab6

#   kfreebsd /boot/kernel/kernel
#   kfreebsd_loadenv /boot/device.hints

#   set kFreeBSD.vfs.root.mountfrom=ufs:/dev/ufsid/50acd4912b9adab6
#   set kFreeBSD.vfs.root.mountfrom.options=rw


set root=(hd0,3)
chainloader +1
 
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