From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Sep 17 16:36:34 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from manor.msen.com (manor.msen.com [148.59.4.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 70E6837B407 for ; Mon, 17 Sep 2001 16:36:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from wayne@localhost) by manor.msen.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id TAA20162 for freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG; Mon, 17 Sep 2001 19:36:30 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from wayne) Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 19:36:30 -0400 From: "Michael R. Wayne" To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problems getting STABLE running on a VAIO 505TL Message-ID: <20010917193630.A44516@staff.msen.com> References: <014c01c13fc5$b8c65f40$0245a8c0@chojin> <200109172240.f8HMe0R31074@ptavv.es.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <200109172240.f8HMe0R31074@ptavv.es.net>; from oberman@es.net on Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 03:40:00PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Can we paste this into UPDATING? /\/\ \/\/ On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 03:40:00PM -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote: > > cvsup (well, that has to be first since you can't build from updated > sources without the updated sources.) > make buildworld (This is the single most complex step in the rebuild. > And, it has NO impact on the running system. It must > precede either a buildkernel or installworld.) > make kernel (This simply is a short way of entering "make buildkernel > && make installkernel". You do this so you can make sure > that you have a bootable kernel built on the new system > sources and objects. But the new executables are not yet > installed, making it easy to fall back to the old system > should the new kernel fail to boot.) > Reboot to single-user mode (This is a safety think. Installing new > system over the existing one usually > works, but it's far from safe!) > make installworld (You KNOW that the new kernel works and that all of > the new binaries built, so it's time to take the > first step that is really hard to back out of if > there are problems.) > mergemaster (This is really a "cleanup" item, although it is a very > important one.) > Reboot to normal (You're done!) > > Building and installing the kernel after installing world is risky, > especially if changes in userland cause the old kernel to not work > well with it. It gets especially ugly if building the kernel should > fail! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message