> I burned the cdrom pretty easily, and it boots fine. It doesn't start
> the install/upgrade program, and even if I mount the cd and go to
> upgrade.sh, it won't run, because it can't find /kern/msgbuf. 

This should be fixed in next snapshot.


> I tried doing it by hand, which isn't normally a problem, but I don't
> know how to manually update the boot loader, and without that, the 1.5
> kernel won't boot just by copying it to /

To install the boot program from the miniroot (i.e. assuming the target
filesystem is mounted on /mnt) do:

	/usr/mdec/binstall ffs /mnt