From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Mar 16 13:13:55 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from peak.mountin.net (peak.mountin.net [207.227.119.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 856CB37BF53 for ; Thu, 16 Mar 2000 13:13:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jeff-ml@mountin.net) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by peak.mountin.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) id PAA15770; Thu, 16 Mar 2000 15:13:40 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from jeff-ml@mountin.net) Received: from dial-72.max1.wa.cyberlynk.net(207.227.118.72) by peak.mountin.net via smap (V1.3) id sma015768; Thu Mar 16 15:13:14 2000 Message-Id: <4.3.2.20000316150239.00b82af0@207.227.119.2> X-Sender: jeff-ml@207.227.119.2 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3 Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 15:11:05 -0600 To: Doug Barton From: "Jeffrey J. Mountin" Subject: Re: HEADS UP: 3.x -> 4.0-STABLE upgrade instructions Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 12:03 PM 3/16/00 -0800, Doug Barton wrote: > Also, I'd like to suggest modifying 'installkernel' to install the >kernel it builds as /kernel, rather than as /${KERNEL} (which usually >means /GENERIC). This bit me the first time, and even though it's harmless >not everyone is saavy enough to know how to boot a specific kernel, or >even to know where to look. Not too often I need to to boot a specific kernel, but when an odd bug was causing my boot drive ad0 not to be found, still recalled that one must interrupt the boot sequence, unload the kernel, load the desire kernel, and 'boot' up. Good thing I was paying attention to all the endless discussion about the new loader back when 3.0 was in the works. Only problem I had was remembering to look over and catch it. 8-/ A few basics on the loader should be in the handbook, IMO. AFAICR, there is no mention either in the FAQ either. Jeff Mountin - jeff@mountin.net Systems/Network Administrator FreeBSD - the power to serve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message