From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Jul 11 10:17:24 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5562437B400 for ; Thu, 11 Jul 2002 10:17:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from alicia.nttmcl.com (alicia.nttmcl.com [216.69.69.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 08CE143E31 for ; Thu, 11 Jul 2002 10:17:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jj@alicia.nttmcl.com) Received: (from jj@localhost) by alicia.nttmcl.com (8.10.1/8.10.1) id g6BHGoH00731; Thu, 11 Jul 2002 10:16:50 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 10:16:50 -0700 From: Shannon -jj Behrens To: Kevin Oberman , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.6-RELEASE -> 4.5-RELENG Message-ID: <20020711101650.B29387@alicia.nttmcl.com> Mail-Followup-To: Shannon -jj Behrens , Kevin Oberman , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20020619150606.J97503-100000@mirage.nlink.com.br> <20020710175614.7F3535D03@ptavv.es.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <20020710175614.7F3535D03@ptavv.es.net>; from oberman@es.net on Wed, Jul 10, 2002 at 10:56:14AM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I keep posting this because people keep building new systems in a > dangerous way. > > Doing the installworld before building and booting the new kernel is > very risky. It will almost always make no difference, but, on the > rare occasions when it does, it will leave you with a VERY sick > system and the only way out maybe to re-install FreeBSD from scratch. > > While there are a few niggles, the proper sequence is: > mergemaster -p (This is NEW!) > make buildworld > make kernel KERNCONF=your_kernel_conf_name > REBOOT into single-user mode! (This does not mean drop to single user.) > fsck -p > mount -a -t ufs > cd /usr/src > make installworld > mergemaster -i (-a is a bit inadequate unless you go back and clean up > the mess it often leaves before going to multi-user > mode.) > exit (to multi-user mode) Shouldn't "make installkernel" come after "make kernel..."? Let's all give homage to the handbook :) Best Regards, -jj -- Real programmers don't draw flowcharts. Flowcharts are, after all, the illiterate's form of documentation. Cavemen drew flowcharts; look how much good it did them. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message