From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Feb 28 10:39:51 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from odin.ac.hmc.edu (Odin.AC.HMC.Edu [134.173.32.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A6A4237B719 for ; Wed, 28 Feb 2001 10:39:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brdavis@odin.ac.hmc.edu) Received: (from brdavis@localhost) by odin.ac.hmc.edu (8.11.0/8.11.0) id f1SIdhc21506; Wed, 28 Feb 2001 10:39:43 -0800 Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 10:39:43 -0800 From: Brooks Davis To: Dave Cantrell Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: being FreeBSD-stable Message-ID: <20010228103943.C30207@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> References: <008701c0a1a9$a6968080$4b443dca@x4o7r5> <023701c0a1af$f5489fa0$7d7885c0@genroco.com> <01022812352403.49357@phaedrus.alltel.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="DIOMP1UsTsWJauNi" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <01022812352403.49357@phaedrus.alltel.net>; from phaedrus@alltel.net on Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 12:35:24PM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --DIOMP1UsTsWJauNi Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 12:35:24PM -0600, Dave Cantrell wrote: > > 7. Install the kernel > > > > make installkernel > > > > 8. Install the world: > > > One question. Does it matter which is done first, the make (install) wor= ld=20 > or the building and installing of the new kernel?=20 There's a missing step here. You should reboot into single user mode it at all possiable between these two steps. This allows you to be sure your kernel actually works before installing the associated work. If it doesn't it's a simple matter of reverting to kernel.old where as it's quite difficult to undo an installworld. -- Brooks --=20 Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 --DIOMP1UsTsWJauNi Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE6nUXuXY6L6fI4GtQRAg0CAJwI4+2itmecjLmdKGpq4zyV4Jv4FwCgowZb MLu7xBuztd0rbwcnfAJWJcM= =CzdF -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --DIOMP1UsTsWJauNi-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message