Date: Sat, 02 Nov 2002 18:58:47 -0600 (CST) From: Conrad Sabatier <conrads@cox.net> To: Ned Wolpert <wolpert@codeheadsystems.com> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Upgrading 4.7-stable to -current question Message-ID: <XFMail.20021102185847.conrads@cox.net> In-Reply-To: <1036284227.297.26.camel@wolpert.codeheadsystems.com>
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On 03-Nov-2002 Ned Wolpert wrote: > On Sat, 2002-11-02 at 17:20, Conrad Sabatier wrote: >> Read the UPDATING file very carefully. You'll see that one of the steps >> in upgrading from 4.x to 5.0 is updating the boot blocks. > > Yes, there are several entries. 20000615 is the most interesting: > > In addition, you'll need to update your boot blocks to a > more modern version, if you haven't already done so. Modern > here means 4.0 release or newer (although older releases > may work). > > Now, my system was installed around 4.4, so I "should not" need to > update my boot blocks. Correct? Mmm, perhaps not. :-) > Getting back to my original question, the problem I was having was with > the loader itself. Now, do I have to execute this step (from the > UPDATING document) > cd src/sys/boot ; make install Yes, that's the one I was thinking of, actually. Had a little slip of the brain there. :-) > Reason why I ask is because my loader is from 4.4, so it should work. > (Provided I do a > ok unload > ok boot /boot/kernel/kernel > manually) As the UPDATING doc mentions, upgrading from 4.x to 5.x needs > that step to avoid those extra steps, yes? But it should still boot if I > unload and load manually, correct? I guess the real question was that > if this is the case, it didn't boot into /boot/kernel/kernel at that > point either... after the unload and boot steps above. Could that have > occurred because I still had the old /modules directory? I do think this last step (make install in sys/boot) is an absolute "must" to boot the new kernel. Someone may correct me, but that's the impression I got from reading the docs. Myself, I played it ultra-safe and followed the upgrade instructions to the letter, including moving the 4.x modules to a different directory. The upgrade went off without a single gotcha. -- Conrad Sabatier <conrads@cox.net> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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