From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Nov 5 21:56:27 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from ns.yogotech.com (ns.yogotech.com [206.127.123.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B0A6037B4CF for ; Sun, 5 Nov 2000 21:56:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from nomad.yogotech.com (nomad.yogotech.com [206.127.123.131]) by ns.yogotech.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA12294; Sun, 5 Nov 2000 22:55:57 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate@nomad.yogotech.com) Received: (from nate@localhost) by nomad.yogotech.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA13749; Sun, 5 Nov 2000 22:55:54 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate) Date: Sun, 5 Nov 2000 22:55:54 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <200011060555.WAA13749@nomad.yogotech.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Warner Losh Cc: Feisal Umar , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Re-Booting new -STABLE Kernel: Failure To Mount Root .. even GENERIC In-Reply-To: <200011040728.AAA31225@harmony.village.org> References: <5.0.0.25.0.20001104151525.04ec7ec0@192.168.1.22> <200011040728.AAA31225@harmony.village.org> X-Mailer: VM 6.34 under 19.16 "Lille" XEmacs Lucid Reply-To: nate@yogotech.com (Nate Williams) Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > : but I would be caught in a real mess, in my case, if I installed the latest > : userland tools and find out my new kernel would not > : boot, wouldn't I? > > Yes. You could be. Usually all it means is that ps, top and a few > other minor programs won't work. The one that is scary is when 'mount' quits working. :( Nate > > : I have caught myself before where the binaries leads > : the kernel version (stupid mistakes .. don't remind me why). In my case, > : STABLE-4.2(BETA) against my only working kernel STABLE4.1.1 > > Should mostly work. Definitely well enough to recover from, likely > well enough to boot multiuser and not notice. > > : But .. I digress .... > : Will "/dev/MAKEDEV all" have reasonable chances of working? I have it on > : the console now .. waiting for the ENTER keystroke :) > : My only doubts are because I have no idea why I am doing it, which goes > : against what I usually do with production machines. On a hindsight, my > : /dev/MAKEDEV is dated July 18 - Kernel is STABLE-4.1.1 Oct 20. > > cd /dev > sh MAKEDEV all > > should work, but likely won't change a thing unless you've > specifically blown away devices that you need. A 4.1.1-stable to > 4.2-beta upgrade shouldn't need these sorts of things as there haven't > been, iirc, any changes to the devices in the typical boot path. > Might need it for sound but even then it should be ok. > > note, MAKEDEV all won't recreate disk slices, but for such a small > upgrade (in terms of number of big bad changes), you shouldn't need > to. > > > Warner > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message