From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Nov 3 23:28: 9 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (unknown [204.144.255.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E5BB337B4C5 for ; Fri, 3 Nov 2000 23:28:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id eA47S1n49366; Sat, 4 Nov 2000 00:28:01 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.9.3/8.8.3) with ESMTP id AAA31225; Sat, 4 Nov 2000 00:28:00 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <200011040728.AAA31225@harmony.village.org> To: Feisal Umar Subject: Re: Re-Booting new -STABLE Kernel: Failure To Mount Root .. even GENERIC Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 04 Nov 2000 15:26:20 +0800." <5.0.0.25.0.20001104151525.04ec7ec0@192.168.1.22> References: <5.0.0.25.0.20001104151525.04ec7ec0@192.168.1.22> Date: Sat, 04 Nov 2000 00:28:00 -0700 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <5.0.0.25.0.20001104151525.04ec7ec0@192.168.1.22> Feisal Umar writes: : 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. : 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