From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Aug 31 5:32: 2 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from drugs.dv.isc.org (drugs.dv.isc.org [130.155.191.236]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB86237B440 for ; Thu, 31 Aug 2000 05:31:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nominum.com (localhost.dv.isc.org [127.0.0.1]) by drugs.dv.isc.org (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id e7VCViA37083; Thu, 31 Aug 2000 23:31:44 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from marka@nominum.com) Message-Id: <200008311231.e7VCViA37083@drugs.dv.isc.org> To: Neil Blakey-Milner Cc: Mark.Andrews@nominum.com, jack , Gary Kline , Mike Tancsa , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG From: Mark.Andrews@nominum.com Subject: Re: stable status.... still hosed In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 31 Aug 2000 12:23:19 +0200." <20000831122319.A4143@mithrandr.moria.org> Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 23:31:44 +1100 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > On Thu 2000-08-31 (15:53), Mark.Andrews@nominum.com wrote: > > > > The fact that it compiles does not indicate that it works. > > > > There are reports that the system is locking up. There is > > no all clear on that at present. > > > > It's going to be interesting to see how many people end up > > without a working kernel at all now that installkernel has > > changed. Don't forget to replace kernel with kernel.old. > > Has changed how? It still creates ".old" backups, at least on my > system. There used to be a manual steps, leaving out the chflags steps. cp /kernel /kernel.old cp /GENERIC /kernel A sensible person will leave out the first step if the old kernel is hosed. Now it is too easy to do: /kernel (good) buildkernel + installkernel /kernel (bad) /kernel.old (good) buildkernel + installkernel /kernel (bad) /kernel.old (bad) as the install moves /kernel to /kernel.old. Mark > > Neil > -- > Neil Blakey-Milner > Sunesi Clinical Systems > nbm@mithrandr.moria.org -- Mark Andrews, Nominum Inc. 1 Seymour St., Dundas Valley, NSW 2117, Australia PHONE: +61 2 9871 4742 INTERNET: Mark.Andrews@nominum.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message