Update FreeBSD
With freebsd-update
If you get the error message:
Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 5 mirrors found.
Fetching public key from update2.freebsd.org... failed.
Fetching public key from update5.freebsd.org... failed.
Fetching public key from update4.freebsd.org... failed.
Fetching public key from update3.freebsd.org... failed.
Fetching public key from update6.freebsd.org... failed.
No mirrors remaining, giving up.Execute the following:
setenv UNAME_r "9.2-RELEASE"
freebsd-update fetch
freebsd-update install
reboot
Upgrade to FreeBSD Version 10 and higher
Make a backup of folder etc:
cd /
tar cjvf etc.tar.bz2 etc
Upgrade will be done using freebsd-update. No need to create a snapshot anymore, freebsd-update will do this automatically for you.
Now we start with the upgrade:
freebsd-update -r 10.1-RELEASE upgrade
freebsd-update -r 10.2-RELEASE upgrade
freebsd-update -r 10.3-RELEASE upgrade
# : > /usr/bin/bspatch (only required if your update to FreeBSD 11, make sure you execute it before you start with the upgrade)
freebsd-update upgrade -r 11.0-RELEASE
freebsd-update upgrade -r 11.1-RELEASE
freebsd-update upgrade -r 11.2-RELEASE
freebsd-update upgrade -r 12.0-RELEASE
freebsd-update upgrade -r 12.1-RELEASE
freebsd-update upgrade -r 12.2-RELEASE
freebsd-update upgrade -r 13.0-RELEASE
freebsd-update upgrade -r 13.1-RELEASE
freebsd-update upgrade -r 13.2-RELEASE
freebsd-update upgrade -r 13.3-RELEASE
freebsd-update upgrade -r 14.0-RELEASE
freebsd-update upgrade -r 14.1-RELEASE
freebsd-update install
# nextboot -k GENERIC
reboot
freebsd-update install
# check that config files in etc are correct!
reboot
# Make sure you point pkg repo definition to correct FreeBSD version
pkg update -f
pkg-static install -f pkg
pkg-static upgrade -F -y
pkg upgrade -f -y
freebsd-update install
reboot
Check automatically for Patches
Add to /etc/crontab:
/etc/crontab
0 3 * * * root /usr/sbin/freebsd-update cronCustom Kernel
Make sure you install your custom kernel not as kernel. You have been warned! freebsd-update will overwrite it, even if you have /boot/GERNERIC in place!
Add the following line:
/boot/loader.conf
kernel="kernel.custom"Get the new realtek card working used with intel skylake apply the following patch:
--- /usr/src/sys/dev/re/if_re.c.orig 2015-12-05 13:55:25.692456174 +0000
+++ /usr/src/sys/dev/re/if_re.c 2015-12-07 10:54:35.952128971 +0000
@@ -181,7 +181,7 @@
{ RT_VENDORID, RT_DEVICEID_8101E, 0,
"RealTek 810xE PCIe 10/100baseTX" },
{ RT_VENDORID, RT_DEVICEID_8168, 0,
- "RealTek 8168/8111 B/C/CP/D/DP/E/F/G PCIe Gigabit Ethernet" },
+ "RealTek 8168/8111 B/C/CP/D/DP/E/F/G/H PCIe Gigabit Ethernet" },
{ RT_VENDORID, RT_DEVICEID_8169, 0,
"RealTek 8169/8169S/8169SB(L)/8110S/8110SB(L) Gigabit Ethernet" },
{ RT_VENDORID, RT_DEVICEID_8169SC, 0,
@@ -237,6 +237,7 @@
{ RL_HWREV_8168F, RL_8169, "8168F/8111F", RL_JUMBO_MTU_9K},
{ RL_HWREV_8168G, RL_8169, "8168G/8111G", RL_JUMBO_MTU_9K},
{ RL_HWREV_8168GU, RL_8169, "8168GU/8111GU", RL_JUMBO_MTU_9K},
+ { RL_HWREV_8168H, RL_8169, "8168H/8111H", RL_JUMBO_MTU_9K},
{ RL_HWREV_8411, RL_8169, "8411", RL_JUMBO_MTU_9K},
{ RL_HWREV_8411B, RL_8169, "8411B", RL_JUMBO_MTU_9K},
{ 0, 0, NULL, 0 }
@@ -1483,6 +1484,7 @@
break;
case RL_HWREV_8168EP:
case RL_HWREV_8168G:
+ case RL_HWREV_8168H:
case RL_HWREV_8411B:
sc->rl_flags |= RL_FLAG_PHYWAKE | RL_FLAG_PAR |
RL_FLAG_DESCV2 | RL_FLAG_MACSTAT | RL_FLAG_CMDSTOP |
--- /usr/src/sys/pci/if_rlreg.h.orig 2015-12-05 14:11:15.773204293 +0000
+++ /usr/src/sys/pci/if_rlreg.h 2015-12-05 15:29:56.277653413 +0000
@@ -195,6 +195,7 @@
#define RL_HWREV_8168G 0x4C000000
#define RL_HWREV_8168EP 0x50000000
#define RL_HWREV_8168GU 0x50800000
+#define RL_HWREV_8168H 0x54000000
#define RL_HWREV_8411B 0x5C800000
#define RL_HWREV_8139 0x60000000
#define RL_HWREV_8139A 0x70000000
To update the custom kernel:
cd /usr/src
make kernel-toolchain
make KERNCONF=IDEFIX INSTKERNNAME=kernel.custom -DNO_CLEAN kernel