So I followed the release notes to the letter, did everything exactly as I should, double checked all commands before pressing Enter, and somehow I still managed to mangle the upgrade from FreeBSD 14.3-RELEASE to 15.0-RELEASE. Booting the new kernel in multiuser causes a panic, and booting the old kernel gets me to a login prompt but I can't log in as root or a regular user, it just kicks me back out to the login prompt. Rolling back to the old release results in a non-booting system period.
No big deal since it's literally just a workstation for testing things like that and no critical data was lost. Oh well, back to OpenBSD on that system, let's play around with 7.8! And when it's time to upgrade to 7.9 around my birthday, I know it will be smooth sailing as always. OpenBSD never disappoints!
#FreeBSD #OpenBSD
Morgan
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2025-12-02 20:15:49 UTC
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