From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Sep 13 14: 2:53 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from 2711.dynacom.net (2711.dynacom.net [206.107.213.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 24C4237B422 for ; Wed, 13 Sep 2000 14:02:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from urx.com (dsl1-160.dynacom.net [206.159.132.160]) by 2711.dynacom.net (Build 101 8.9.3/NT-8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA00365; Wed, 13 Sep 2000 14:02:41 -0700 Message-ID: <39BFEB71.BCC8801C@urx.com> Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 14:02:41 -0700 From: Kent Stewart Reply-To: kstewart@urx.com Organization: Dynacom X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Warner Losh Cc: Andy Farkas , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: make buildkernel not working References: <200009132050.OAA90931@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 Andy Farkas writes: > : Do you _have_ to reboot? Can you get away with a 'shutdown now', or do > : you have to load the new kernel before an installworld? (the [1] note > : implies not). I am guessing the object is to quiet down the system, and > : if this is the case, then surely a shutdown is preferable to a reboot... > > No, you don't have to reboot for a 4.x -> 4.x upgrade. I leave it in > because it will always be safe to do this and I don't like revising > the instructions too often. > > So, yes, you can get away with a shutdown now. You can often get away > with a make installworld on a live system followed by a reboot, but > while installworld is running, things are in an inconsistant state and > problems may happen. I have two workstations that I upgrade frequently and I don't have to go to singleuser mode to upgrade them. On those machines, I reboot after running mergemaster. My server has a lot more stuff running such as my firewill and etc. I go to single user mode on it just to shutdown the daemons. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kbstew99@hotmail.com http://kstewart.urx.com/kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message