SysAdmin "Lack-of-Judgement" Day

I have a beaglebone black. It was running OpenBSD 5.5. I felt the urge to upgrade last night, so I set off on a massive fustercluck of cursing, crying, and gnashing of teeth (whatever that means). Oh, and the curse of U-boot bites. Hard.

First, you aren't **EVER** supposed to skip versions when you upgrade OpenBSD. If you have an OpenBSD 5.5 machine and you want to upgrade to OpenBSD-5.7, you need to upgrade to 5.6 first, then upgrade again to 5.7 (or backup everything, perform a clean 5.7 install, then restore your data). One small catch, armv7 didn't have a 5.6 release. It simply doesn't exist, to my knowledge...and I have backups of my stuff, should that become necessary, right?

Knowing this, I decided to brave the rapids and dive in to a 5.5 -> 5.7 upgrade anyways, damn the torpedos and such. I consider myself a pretty damned good sysad, though...maybe this will be a bit of a challenge...what's the worst that could happen, afterall?

FML. You know when they say "everyone will laugh at you, and you get to keep the pieces"? That's yours truly right now.

NOTE: this is in no way placing *ANY* blame on the OpenBSD project. I'm not posting this asking for assistance or complaining (well, complaining about my lack of common sense right about now, but not complaining about the software. I knew the possible issues that could arise from this, and I dove in head-first like an idiot).

This is a BBB revB, by the way, so I really only have ~1.8 GB of usable space on it. I could, I suppose, use nfs, iscsi, or such to add a bit of space, but I haven't (yet) hit that point...though when ports are done installing (so I can build everything I had installed before from scratch) I may be forced to take that option seriously.

Hey, at least it *boots* properly now without killing init.