problems upgrading from 4.7 - 4.8

[Slugbucket]

On Sunday 23 March 2003 16:46, Andrew Boothman wrote:
> Slugbucket wrote:
> >Having successfully used 'make world' to upgrade from 4.6 to 4.7,
> >I thought I'd try the same to upgrade from 4.7 to 4.8 so that I can
> >start using the atapicam tools to access CDs. Alas, I've not been so
> >lucky.
> >cvsup for src-all was fine; the 'make buildworld' had no issues. However,
> >I have come unstuck with the new kernel: Below is a sample attempt at
> >a kernel build.
> Does GENERIC build OK? I always build and boot GENERIC before trying a
> custom kernel anyway as you should be sure that it works properly.
>
No. GENERIC gets a fair way through before failing. I' reckon my source
installation is pretty much trashed so I've given up on this upgrade; I found
that I could use a Linux box to do the job I needed an upgraded FBSD for.

Thanks for the suggestions,
Julian