From owner-freebsd-current Mon Oct 28 12:27:30 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 15F5D37B401 for ; Mon, 28 Oct 2002 12:27:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from harmony.village.org (rover.bsdimp.com [204.144.255.66]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7604943E4A for ; Mon, 28 Oct 2002 12:27:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from imp@bsdimp.com) Received: from localhost (warner@rover2.village.org [10.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g9SKQOpk030764; Mon, 28 Oct 2002 13:26:30 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from imp@bsdimp.com) Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2002 13:25:11 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <20021028.132511.02302188.imp@bsdimp.com> To: kientzle@acm.org Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, peter@wemm.org Subject: Re: HEADS UP: you need to install a new kernel before an installworld. From: "M. Warner Losh" In-Reply-To: <3DBD9672.9000308@acm.org> References: <3DBAE1FA.2010209@acm.org> <20021026.234211.117680655.imp@bsdimp.com> <3DBD9672.9000308@acm.org> X-Mailer: Mew version 2.1 on Emacs 21.2 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii 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 In message: <3DBD9672.9000308@acm.org> Tim Kientzle writes: : 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. Dude! don't get snotty with me! I hadn't forgotten. The instructions in question were for updating around a specific 5.0 issue. The instructions in UPDATING are correct, to the best of my ability to determine, for the 4.x -> 5.0 upgrade. You do not need to upgrade your boot blocks for the specific issue that started this thread. There were no changes to the boot blocks in recent history that require this if you are tracking 5.0. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message