From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 14 14:51:36 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from lists.blarg.net (lists.blarg.net [206.124.128.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E808B37B406 for ; Sun, 14 Oct 2001 14:51:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from thig.blarg.net (thig.blarg.net [206.124.128.18]) by lists.blarg.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 97E1CBCE6; Sun, 14 Oct 2001 14:51:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost.localdomain ([206.124.139.115]) by thig.blarg.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA29083; Sun, 14 Oct 2001 14:51:30 -0700 Received: (from jojo@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.11.6/8.11.3) id f9ELofb33415; Sun, 14 Oct 2001 14:50:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from swear@blarg.net) To: Mike Meyer , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvsup References: <15304.58886.215474.233433@guru.mired.org> <15305.46606.130325.710925@guru.mired.org> From: swear@blarg.net (Gary W. Swearingen) Date: 14 Oct 2001 14:50:41 -0700 In-Reply-To: <15305.46606.130325.710925@guru.mired.org> Message-ID: <6tzo6tnb66.o6t@localhost.localdomain> Lines: 23 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mike Meyer writes: > The two build processes don't touch the the running system in any > way. installkernel already saves the old kernel and modules as > kernel.old and modules.old. Which reminds me of something else I wondered about. When I select an old kernel from the boot prompt, shouldn't I do something to select the old modules to go with it? It seems I'd have to use the "load" boot command to load each and every module I need or will need, since the old kernel doesn't know where to find the old modules. Or does it? I don't recall reading about that. > To answer your question, the only thing that has to work to boot > single user is the shell. I was thinking of "init", but I've not used single-user mode enough to remember what all's running, and I suppose "init" is even more likely to be compatible than the shell in any case. And then you've got to use some more of the old world in order to mount swap and disks and run software to install the new world, etc. But you've convinced me that it's nothing to lose sleep about. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message