On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 01:29:32PM -0700, Darrian Hale wrote:

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> Thanks for your help,
> 
> See additional comments below.
> 
> -Darrian

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> >
> > Just edit your disklabel, using the 'm' command.
> 
> Thanks, this worked.  After booting from 4.2 ramdisk kernel, i ran
> disklabel -E wd0
> I then modified the a partition and the default offset was a very large number,
> i changed this to 63 and kept the size the same. For the remainder of the
> partitions i just added the previous size and offset for the new offset.
> 
> My real upgrade however needs to be remote, so I cannot boot the ramdisk kernel
> and perform these steps.  For completeness, I did the following to make a remote
> upgrade work.
> 
> 1. login to 4.1 system
> 2. copy 4.2 kernels and disklabel from 4.2 to system.
> 3. run 4.2 disklabel while still running 4.1 kernel and fix disklabel
> as described above.
> 4. reboot, it works and i can still remotely login to system which is
> now running a 4.2
> kernel with 4.1 userland.
> ** unexpectedly at this point, I can now boot either the 4.1 kernel or
> 4.2 kernel with the
> same 4.1 userland.  It seems that after modifying the disk label with
> the 4.2 version of
> disklabel, that the 4.1 version still reads it properly. **
> 5. finish upgrade as described in openbsd upgrade FAQ.


I repeat, if your 4.1 disklabel is OK an never touched by a 4.2
kernel, a regular upgrade should work.  You upgrade procedure above is
non-standard, and I have no idea if it will work in all cases. 

	-Otto