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Subject: Re: New Kernel Breaks linux_base?
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> > I am conteplating a make world, but that may be overkill (and is very 
> > scary for me, being a relative newbie to the deep dark secrets of 
> > FreeBSD)... Any thoughts?
> 
> A make world is exactly what you should do.  You can not update your
> kernel without updating your modules and the prefered way to do so in
> 4.x is make world.  In 5.0 modules should have versions to avoid the
> panic and be updated with the kernel to avoid sync problems.  This is
> partialy working in current now.

Moreover, there's nothing scary about make world. Do it in two
steps, make buildworld (which you can do while using the machine
normally for other things) and make installworld (before which you
should preferably stop other jobs, perhaps bring it down to
single-user mode).


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