From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 19 10:44:34 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-10.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 274D337B404 for ; Tue, 19 Feb 2002 10:44:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from [212.238.194.207] (helo=mailhost.raggedclown.net) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16dFFd-0003zF-00 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Tue, 19 Feb 2002 18:44:29 +0000 Received: from angel.raggedclown.net (angel.raggedclown.intra [192.168.1.7]) by mailhost.raggedclown.net (Ragged Clown Mail Gateway [buffy]) with ESMTP id 0FD9F13040 for ; Tue, 19 Feb 2002 19:44:29 +0100 (CET) Received: by angel.raggedclown.net (Ragged Clown Host [angel], from userid 6002) id ED66622590; Tue, 19 Feb 2002 19:44:28 +0100 (CET) Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 19:44:28 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dropping to single user Message-ID: <20020219184428.GA1191@raggedclown.net> References: <20020219180156.ADF165D09@ptavv.es.net> <200202191823.g1JINCa35372@zaphod.wox.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200202191823.g1JINCa35372@zaphod.wox.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 01:23:11PM -0500, Richard Glidden wrote: > On 19 Feb, Kevin Oberman wrote: > > > Yes, a 'shutdown now' will "drop you to single-user mode, but you > > REALLY want to reboot after you installkernel and before you > > installworld. > > Actually, isn't this dangerous, since you would be booting a new kernel > with an old world, which could cause problems if there are significant > changes to the kernel that breaks the old world? What I usually do is: > > make buildworld > make buildkernel KERNCONF=xxxx > shutdown +15 "Upgrading the World. Be right back." > > make installkernel KERNCONF=xxxx > mergemaster > make installworld > shutdown -r now > Yes, surely the mergemaster *has* to be done before the installworld since the new world may expect certain new things to exist in /etc. -- Regards Cliff Sarginson -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message