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Date:      Wed, 21 Mar 2018 22:34:15 -0600
From:      Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>
To:        Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.org>
Cc:        John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>, Kyle Evans <kevans@freebsd.org>, svn-src-head@freebsd.org,  svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers <src-committers@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r331209 - head
Message-ID:  <CANCZdfos0HKK=zmUjtDPmc4Kjnxw32gtYQ%2BW60NQVn1GMpUKfQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20180322040316.GB49350@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <201803191527.w2JFRr7B058668@repo.freebsd.org> <4168709.idJmbTaMPK@ralph.baldwin.cx> <20180322040316.GB49350@FreeBSD.org>

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On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 10:03 PM, Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.org>
wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 19, 2018 at 09:20:40AM -0700, John Baldwin wrote:
> > On Monday, March 19, 2018 03:27:53 PM Kyle Evans wrote:
> > > New Revision: 331209
> > > URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/331209
> > >
> > > Log:
> > >   Add note to UPDATING about UEFI changes requiring loader(8) update
> > >   ...
> >
> > How does this fit with the recommended installation steps of doing
> > 'make installkernel' and rebooting before doing a 'make installworld'?
>
> Rebooting?  I vaguely recall recommended procedure was to switch to single
> user mode prior to `installworld', but personally I've never bothered and
> installed kernel, [mm -p,] world, mm -Fi, reboot.  Am I missing something?
>

Old advice was to do the installworld in single user, as that's the safest
(and also ensures you have a new kernel and don't install before
rebooting). However, we've had enough experience to see that usually an
installworld + reboot is sufficient.

Warner



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