FreeBSD people?

I'm working on an old FreeBSD Firewall box using a revision from 2004. I've downloaded and burned the images of the newest release from The FreeBSD Project (http://www.freebsd.org) and began an update install on the box to bring it up to date.

The install did not go so well, as the machine told me that an upgrade simply wouldn't work, and I'd be forced to just install a fresh copy. However, when it aborted, it sent the kernel to kernel.prev. So when I attempt to reboot, it forces me to:

boot kernel.prev

and then log in. I've attemped to access /boot/loader.conf to re-establish kernel.prev as the default loaded kernel, but even though I'm /root, it won't let me in... Permission Denied.

This is my first time working with FreeBSD, and I'm not too familiar with any distro's of Linux to get an idea of what to do.

Basically, can anyone help me get my kernel.prev back to the default kernel and perhaps show me what I need to be doing in order to uninstall this version of FreeBSD so that I can prepare the next?

Thanks in advance,
LAGBERIUS J BUNNY

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You ROCK

motherfucker all it took was

cd /
mv kernel.prev kernel
shutdown -r now

and its FN AWESOME AGAIN!

time to figure out how to do a fresh install, thanks bud :D

No Problem. Google is your friend :)

you must not have done it correct. ithink you have to do load <kernel> then boot.

to do an upgrade....read /usr/src/INSTALL i think (it's been a while). then you'll be doing something along the lines of:

make buildworld
make buildkernel
make installkernel (reboote and shutdown to singleusermode needed at times here)
make installworld.
mergemaster -i
reboot

welcome to the latest version.

I plan on whoring bsdforum all day tomorrow and forcing overpaid, underworked IT geeks to walk me through a step-by-step into installing the newest freebsd

i already have mofo helping, F YEAH

stinky, you're next

damn who woulda thought someone like me would be capable of doing this



also, the problem I'm having now consists of:
i insert the boot disk and all i see is a micron on the screen with a blinking curser. any button i press makes it go away for two seconds then come back. if i take the disk out and press a button, it boots up to the old version of bsd on there now.

im using cd's with burned images by the way

think i'll get a better result with floppycocks?

Today....... I attempt this again.