From owner-freebsd-doc Sun Oct 13 13:54:13 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6933037B409 for ; Sun, 13 Oct 2002 13:54:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nic.upatras.gr (nic.upatras.gr [150.140.129.30]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9E0D943E91 for ; Sun, 13 Oct 2002 13:54:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (qmail 7782 invoked from network); 13 Oct 2002 20:47:07 -0000 Received: from upnet-dialinpool-87.upnet.gr (HELO hades.hell.gr) (@150.140.128.167) by nic.upatras.gr with SMTP; 13 Oct 2002 20:47:07 -0000 Received: from hades.hell.gr (hades [127.0.0.1]) by hades.hell.gr (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id g9DKs4aa015040; Sun, 13 Oct 2002 23:54:17 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (from keramida@localhost) by hades.hell.gr (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id g9DKGDR8012703; Sun, 13 Oct 2002 23:16:13 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2002 23:16:11 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: "Gary W. Swearingen" Cc: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: docs/43941: Rationale for Upgrade Sequence Message-ID: <20021013201611.GH10829@hades.hell.gr> References: <200210112220.g9BMK35l024231@freefall.freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 2002-10-11 18:26, "Gary W. Swearingen" wrote: > I see no reason why the two kernel steps shouldn't be combined into > one "make kernel" step. If you take the two step approach, you also get a chance to do custom shuffling around of kernel and module files, before running the final installkernel step. Before enabling GEOM in my FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT installation, I stopped after buildkernel and copied my old /boot/kernel tree to /boot/kernel.nogeom to save myself from a broken kernel installation. The usual installkernel procedure will save the old /boot/kernel tree in /boot/kernel.old, but I just used the two step buildkernel/installkernel procedure to be extra cautious and careful about what changes I am making to avoid ending up with an unbootable system that had no well-known kernel to boot. - Giorgos To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message