Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 18:20:48 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson <cls@raggedclown.net> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: installkernel first? [ a few additions to this reply ] Message-ID: <20030220172048.GC1944@raggedclown.net> In-Reply-To: <20030220153710.GA19633@fif.office.inext.hu> References: <1045718989.3e5467cdd1dee@webmail.adam.com.au> <20030220153710.GA19633@fif.office.inext.hu>
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On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 04:37:10PM +0100, Peter Hollaubek wrote:
> On Feb 20, 2003, bastill@adam.com.au wrote:
> > I'm tracking 4.7 stable.
> > The handbook asks me to:
> > go to single user mode and fsck -p (etc ...)
> > Can't.
> > "/dev/ad2s1a: NO WRITE ACCESS
> > /dev/ad2s1a: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY."
> > (Mounted RW according to fstab).
> >
> > after "make buildworld" as single user and reboot also to single user could not
> > "cd /usr/src" - ls shows the /usr directory containing only /usr/local and no
> > other directories.
> > I CAN find /usr/src (and a number of other useful directories <g>) as root or user.
> >
> > I am next supposed to "make buildkernel # make installkernel". This appeared to
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A "#" turns the rest of the line into a comment, I think you mean "&&".
So if you did this, you will not have a new kernel.
> > work ok (I didn't monitor), but no new kernel appeared in the / directory (I
> > still had my 'old' one).
> >
> > The next step was to be "make installworld" but I have not done this in view of
> > the earlier errors.
> >
> > Can someone figure this out for me and point me in the right direction?
> > Thanks.
> >
> > --
> > Brian
> >
>
> As of /usr/src/UPDATING:
>
> To update from 4.0-RELEASE or later to the most current
> 4.x-STABLE
> ----------
> make buildworld
> make buildkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE
> make installkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE
> reboot (in single user) [1]
Here first do..
mount -a
mergemaster -p
> make installworld
> mergemaster [2]
> reboot
>
> In single user mode only the root fs is mounted by default. So for making installworld
> you have to mount all the slices affected by such a process (usually all other slices like
> /usr, /var), and also, only the system itself boots up, nothing else is started
> preventing any problem caused by installing something new under a running old task
> in memory. If the new kernel fails you can return to the old one without risking
> incompatibility with the old kernel and the new world. Everything in this order has a
> reason :).
>
--
Regards
Cliff Sarginson
The Netherlands
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