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From: Trevin Beattie <*trevin*@*xmission*.*com*>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Help upgrading from 1.1b to 1.2.1
Date: Sun, 25 May 1997 16:27:31 -0600
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My -current sources were getting quite old, so I decided to download the
latest release and make & install it.  I got as far as building the
kernel, but when I tried to boot with the new kernel it got through
detecting all the devices (so far as I could tell; it didn't leave any
record in /var/log/messages) and then locked up.

I thought that maybe the boot sectors might also need updating, so after
hacking the boot code to allow more than two SCSI drives (I have a
backup bootable filesystem on an optical disk, sd2a) I compiled and
installed that, then tried booting again.  This time, neither the new
nor the old kernel would boot; it got as far as reading the kernel
image, then rebooted.

Does anybody know what I'm missing here?
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