From owner-freebsd-current Wed Mar 13 5:24:36 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mailgw3a.lmco.com (mailgw3a.lmco.com [192.35.35.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C7C0C37B416 for ; Wed, 13 Mar 2002 05:24:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from emss04g01.ems.lmco.com ([166.17.13.122]) by mailgw3a.lmco.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g2DDOWH12918; Wed, 13 Mar 2002 08:24:32 -0500 (EST) Received: from CONVERSION-DAEMON by lmco.com (PMDF V5.2-33 #40649) id <0GSW00901YKGU4@lmco.com>; Wed, 13 Mar 2002 08:24:31 -0500 (EST) Received: from emss04i00.ems.lmco.com ([166.17.13.135]) by lmco.com (PMDF V5.2-33 #40649) with ESMTP id <0GSW006F4YKAPY@lmco.com>; Wed, 13 Mar 2002 08:24:10 -0500 (EST) Received: by emss04i00.ems.lmco.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id ; Wed, 13 Mar 2002 08:24:09 -0500 Content-return: allowed Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 08:24:09 -0500 From: "Kohler, Raymond J" Subject: Re: 4.5->5.0 New Bootloader needed To: "'freebsd-current@freebsd.org'" Cc: "'kris@obsecurity.org'" Message-id: MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Kris Kennaway wrote: >It should be taken care of by installworld when it installs new config files for the loader, right? >i.e. the /boot/kernel location for the 5.0 kernel is specified in the default config file. I think the point here is that when upgrading, you should boot the new kernel *before* running the installworld (and thus before installing the new loader). If you're not paying attention (or don't know better) you'll boot the old kernel instead and possibly have a bad time. This is in fact mentioned in UPDATING already, but it's a bit buried in the more mundane items. It's also confusing that it's not mentioned in the section about the 4.x -> 5.0 dance. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message