Comments on: How To Upgrade FreeBSD 6.2 to FreeBSD 6.3 ( Minor Update ) using freebsd-update utility

By: Kevin

Kevin — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 11:04:15 +0000

Flawless! Excellent tutorial

By: Matt L

Matt L — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 22:49:47 +0000

I followed this to go from 6.2 stable to 7.2 stable (with a custom kernel). Worked a treat.
Thanks a lot.

By: Chris Sheppard

Chris Sheppard — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 14:58:32 +0000

I also got this “Unable to load kernel” message after going from 6.0 straight to 7.0 on a major update release. I don’t know what happened but had a terrible 2 weeks on struggle trying to recover all the data from the disk. (Obviously the backups failed too) Got most of it back from a specialist recovery tool. I think its to do with jumping several releases in one go. It looks as if the developers have not tested all situations. Anyway, since then I only upgrade in small increments, 6.0 -> 6.1, 6.1 -> 6.2 etc

By: noisex

noisex — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 16:29:24 +0000

After update from 6.0 to 6.3-p4 i Got error: Unable to load kernel :(

By: DarkAxi0m

DarkAxi0m — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 01:53:53 +0000

Never mind about that last last cry for help… i forgot i was using a custom kernel… quick rebuild kernel later i see

FreeBSD 6.3-RELEASE-p3 i386

Thankyou DarkAxi0m.

By: DarkAxi0m

DarkAxi0m — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 00:22:44 +0000

Hi
I found this guide after a quick google seach,
i followed the steps in the guide but every time i get to step five it reports

FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE i386

Any idea what when wrong?

it was release “FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE i386″ first not “FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE-p9 i386″ does that matter?

Thankyou DarkAxi0m.

By: Valentino

Valentino — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 20:15:29 +0000

After first reboot, I received this message:

Trying to mount root from ufs: /dev/mf1d0s1a
Segmentation fault
Starting file system check:
/dev/mfid0s1a: file system clean; skipping checks

pid 84 (fsck), uid0: exited on signal 11
Segmentation fault

Unknow error: help!

Feb 6 21:19:39 init: /bin/sh on /etc/rc terminated abnormaly, going to single mode
Enter full pathname of shell or Return for /bin/sh

What does it mean? What am I doing now?
Help me, thank’s.

By: vivek

vivek — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 17:56:51 +0000

What is the meaning of binary in this case?
Only update kernel and userland binaries such as /bin/ls and others. You don’t have to do build world.

To update packages installed from tree follow step # 6.

By: Oliver

Oliver — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 17:15:51 +0000

freebsd-update which supports binary upgrades of i386 and amd64 systems systems running earlier FreeBSD releases,

If it is doing binary upgrades will it still upgrade a system built from the ports tree and not from packages? What is the meaning of binary in this case?