Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2012 11:52:43 -0700 From: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net> To: Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk> Cc: freebsd-ia64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing on zx6000 Message-ID: <12399EEC-E7D2-415C-96EE-102DDA5A4866@xcllnt.net> In-Reply-To: <20120715162848.GA23384@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> References: <4FE38863.9020303@wizardlike.ca> <1817B805-693A-4635-9506-EBD8F90C1166@xcllnt.net> <20120702124138.GB36368@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> <14CF4E3A-17A4-466D-A1BB-A080616B35DD@xcllnt.net> <20120703112755.GA39761@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> <C3DE4358-C96C-41CF-94DB-D6880A2F9954@xcllnt.net> <20120715162848.GA23384@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk>
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On Jul 15, 2012, at 9:28 AM, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > Marcel, > > I went for an easy option, and installed from 8.1-RELEASE DVD. > > Now, can I hope to update to -current in one jump? You should be able to, but make sure you have the latest loader in the EFI system partition. The 8.1 loader will not be able to boot a -current kernel. As a precaution, you could create a new partition for the FreeBSD -current installation so that you preserve the FreeBSD 8.1 one. You can even leave the FreeBSD 8.1 loader on the system partition, though the latest loader should boot an old FreeBSD kernel just fine. FYI, -- Marcel Moolenaar marcel@xcllnt.net
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