From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 6 20: 4:37 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EDFBF1500E for ; Wed, 6 Oct 1999 20:04:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id MAA88508; Thu, 7 Oct 1999 12:33:28 +0930 (CST) Date: Thu, 7 Oct 1999 12:33:28 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: J McKitrick Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: is this just a rumor about kernel installs? Message-ID: <19991007123328.F78191@freebie.lemis.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wednesday, 6 October 1999 at 14:54:15 +0100, J McKitrick wrote: > *Somewhere* i thought i saw someone say that the a new FreeBSD kernel can > be installed without rebooting. This isn't really possible, is it? Could > the person have meant compile, not install? No, you have to install before you reboot. There's nothing surprising about that, but you appear to think that after installation you'll automatically be running the new kernel. That's not the case: installation just moves the new kernel to /kernel and the old kernel (if it exists) to /kernel.old. You still need to reboot to run it. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message