From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Sep 12 6:47:25 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from iclub.nsu.ru (iclub.nsu.ru [193.124.222.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5EE5637B43E for ; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 06:47:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (fjoe@localhost) by iclub.nsu.ru (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA15082; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 20:47:09 +0700 (NSS) (envelope-from fjoe@iclub.nsu.ru) Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 20:47:08 +0700 (NSS) From: Max Khon To: Damien Tougas Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: remote 3.5 -> 4.1-STABLE source upgrade (updated) In-Reply-To: <20000912093419.B29216@carroll.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG hi, there! On Tue, 12 Sep 2000, Damien Tougas wrote: > On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 05:21:37PM +0700, Max Khon wrote: > >2) make buildkernel KERNEL=GENERIC && make installkernel KERNEL=GENERIC > > Just curious, what is the purpose of doing this step before doing the > installworld? because when you will do make installworld you will have /bin overwritten and /bin/sh will not work with your old kernel (you will get fatal trap 12). please note that step 3) is "reboot". > Is this done do make sure that the the kernel works ok > before installing the rest of the OS? Secondly, why would I want to > build the GENERIC kernel instead of my custom kernel? you can build your custom kernel, of course. but I described remote source upgrade procedure so if it will not boot... /fjoe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message