Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 21:01:12 +0200 From: Szilveszter Adam <sziszi@petra.hos.u-szeged.hu> To: stable@freebsd.org Cc: jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org Subject: Re: question on boot changes Message-ID: <20000922210112.A27091@petra.hos.u-szeged.hu> In-Reply-To: <20000922193717.A69637@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>; from jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org on Fri, Sep 22, 2000 at 07:37:17PM %2B0100 References: <20000922193717.A69637@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>
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Hello! On Fri, Sep 22, 2000 at 07:37:17PM +0100, j mckitrick wrote: If you do a buildworld/installworld and build a new kernel, and follow the advice from this list and the UPDATING file, then: > changes to SMP Will be taken care of for you. (No need to change a working config file) > changes to /boot loader Will be taken care of for you. > moving modules to /boot (IIUC?) Yes, but you will need to delete the old /modules directory's contents (note that the directory itself still exists, because if you have third-party modules - the OSS driver comes to mind - you get to stick them in there. But if you do not use any of those, it will and should be empty because the /etc/rc might try to pick up stale modules from there and possibly cause your system to panic. A stale linux.ko is known to cause this.) But this is only needed once, after you get over this, subsequent make worlds will not touch the /modules directory's contents IIRC. > device.hints You need to generate this manually from the old-style kernel config file once but if you already have it, then changing it should not be required unless you change your hardware configuration. The scripts will not touch it because it is individual to your system. > Thanks in advance for the always helpful answers Your welcome... hope this helps. -- Regards: Szilveszter ADAM Szeged University Szeged Hungary To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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