From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Aug 22 8:16:56 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from nbf-27.umd.edu (nbf-27.umd.edu [128.8.38.27]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6275237B43F for ; Tue, 22 Aug 2000 08:16:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from glue.umd.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nbf-27.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA15436; Tue, 22 Aug 2000 11:16:40 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from bfoz@glue.umd.edu) Message-ID: <39A29958.2252D81F@glue.umd.edu> Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 11:16:40 -0400 From: Brandon Fosdick X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Warner Losh Cc: kstewart@urx.com, Erich Zigler , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Oh the rapture References: <39A1F0DD.AA954958@urx.com> <20000821215444.A21157@superhero.org> <200008220621.AAA01842@harmony.village.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Warner Losh wrote: > > In message <39A1F0DD.AA954958@urx.com> Kent Stewart writes: > : After 4.1, yes. If you read /usr/src/UPDATING, you have two choices. > : The first one runs like > : 1. make buildworld > : 2. make buildkernel KERNEL=PRYDN > : 3. make installkernel KERNEL=PRYDN > : 4. reboot to single user > : 5. make installworld > : 6. mergemaster > : 7. reboot > > Yes, for 4.1-stable to 4.1-stable you should have no need to do step > 4, although prudence argues that you should test the new kernel before > installing the new userland world. In place of step 4 is it sufficient to just do `shutdown now'? I mount my /usr/src and /usr/obj with nfs which makes life a little more difficult if I do a full reboot. I always thought it was bad karma to boot a kernel that's out of sync with world. Brandon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message