From: Florian Obser <florian@narrans.de>
Subject: Re: Sysupgrade on i386 vmm to current snapshot hangs on boot into upgrade kernel
To: Brent Cook <busterb@gmail.com>
Cc: OpenBSD technical list <tech@openbsd.org>
Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2026 08:16:54 +0200

On 2026-03-29 20:04 -05, Brent Cook <busterb@gmail.com> wrote:
> When the next snapshot comes out, I'll try again.

You can run sysupgrade -sf to force an upgrade with the existing,
already installed snapshot.

It's only sysupgrade(8) itself (i.e. the shell script) that checks if
you are moving forward. All other components (bootloader, bsd.rd) just
use what you give them.

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