From owner-freebsd-current Mon Oct 28 11:57:19 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A79AF37B401 for ; Mon, 28 Oct 2002 11:57:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from clover.kientzle.com (user-112uh9a.biz.mindspring.com [66.47.69.42]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3BEC143E42 for ; Mon, 28 Oct 2002 11:57:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kientzle@acm.org) Received: from acm.org (c43 [66.47.69.43]) by clover.kientzle.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id g9SJuYE02203; Mon, 28 Oct 2002 11:56:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kientzle@acm.org) Message-ID: <3DBD9672.9000308@acm.org> Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2002 11:56:34 -0800 From: Tim Kientzle Reply-To: kientzle@acm.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:0.9.6) Gecko/20011206 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "M. Warner Losh" Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, peter@wemm.org Subject: Re: HEADS UP: you need to install a new kernel before an installworld. References: <3DBAE1FA.2010209@acm.org> <20021026.234211.117680655.imp@bsdimp.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG M. Warner Losh wrote: > Tim Kientzle writes: > : ... 'installkernel' is not filling it's contract: it is > : not ensuring that the next boot uses the new kernel. > > Are you sure you need new bootblocks? I've not had issues and am > pretty careless about when I do installworld vs installkernel. > > You need them for the 4.x -> 5.0 upgrade, but I didn't think you've > needed new ones for a long time now. In case you've forgotten, in another month or two, thousands of people are going to be upgrading from 4.x -> 5.0. Those are going to be people who don't regularly read -current or even -stable. The upgrade process right now is getting pretty ugly and needs to be cleaned up some before release. Tim Kientzle To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message