From owner-freebsd-current Sat Feb 9 3:40:42 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from kashmir.etowns.net (dsl-65-184-96-65.telocity.com [65.184.96.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1299C37B402 for ; Sat, 9 Feb 2002 03:40:39 -0800 (PST) Received: (from somebody@localhost) by kashmir.etowns.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g19Bg3200665 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org; Sat, 9 Feb 2002 03:42:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from somebody) Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2002 03:42:02 -0800 From: whoever To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: upgrading from 4.4 stable to current Message-ID: <20020209034202.A632@kashmir.etowns.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This is a note for someone upgrading from 4.4 stable to current 5.0 comes right out of my experience in doing so the file /usr/src/UPGRADE doesnt detail the following step I didnt see ne 1 post this before may be it will help some newbie like myself and perhaps somebody will add it to the UPGRADE file after rebuilding the world and the kernel for 5.0 (after cvsuping the src to current , ofcourse) on a system previously running on 4.4 stable installed right out of the FreeBSD purchased CD's it is necessary to reinstall the loader to get it to run the new kernel. to do it I just cd(ed) to /usr/src/sys/boot/i386 make all ; make install; if this step is not done the new kernel will never boot -- I spent like 4\5 hours figuring it out couldnt find any documentation about it anywhere the location of the old kernel is /kernel and the modules is /modules however the new kernel and modules resides in /boot/kernel On a personal note I like the new location better have fun Saurabh Gupta To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message