Date: Fri, 04 Apr 2003 10:20:44 -0600 (CST) From: Conrad Sabatier <conrads@cox.net> To: Wade Majors <wade@ezri.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: So then, is fxp working OK again? Message-ID: <XFMail.20030404102044.conrads@cox.net> In-Reply-To: <3E8DAC22.80000@ezri.org>
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On 04-Apr-2003 Wade Majors wrote: > Conrad Sabatier wrote: >> Having had the same experiences as others described here recently with >> the fxp stuff, I'm just wondering if it's safe now to cvsup and try it >> again. >> I only have one machine here and if my net interface fails, I'm totally >> screwed. :-) > > You can still boot your old kernel from the loader prompt, if such a > thing happens. But everything appears normal to me so far. Yes, except I ran into some problems this last time where, after successfully booting the new kernel in single-user mode, installing world, running mergemaster, rebooting and finding the new kernel didn't work, I couldn't get the old kernel to work, either. :-( Apparently, something had changed just enough somewhere to make the old kernel go kerplooey, too. -- Conrad Sabatier <conrads@cox.net> - "In Unix veritas"
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