problems upgrading from 4.7 - 4.8

[Andrew Boothman]

Slugbucket wrote:

>On Sunday 23 March 2003 16:46, Andrew Boothman wrote:
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>>Slugbucket wrote:
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>>>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.
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>>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.
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>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.
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Just empty /usr/src and /usr/obj and re-cvsup. That usually cures 
problems like that.

Andrew