From owner-cvs-all Thu Jan 7 13:30:14 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA10632 for cvs-all-outgoing; Thu, 7 Jan 1999 13:30:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (sri-gw.MT.net [206.127.105.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA10627 for ; Thu, 7 Jan 1999 13:30:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nate@mt.sri.com) Received: from mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by ns.mt.sri.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id OAA02085; Thu, 7 Jan 1999 14:29:42 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: by mt.sri.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id OAA23760; Thu, 7 Jan 1999 14:29:41 -0700 Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1999 14:29:41 -0700 Message-Id: <199901072129.OAA23760@mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Julian Elischer Cc: Nate Williams , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/conf Makefile.i386 In-Reply-To: References: <199901072037.NAA22536@mt.sri.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.34 under 19.16 "Lille" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Whoops, I missed this. > And you can't change the bootblocks until you have installed the new > stuff Yes you can. The new bootblocks are backwards compatible with the old bootblocks (or will be before you are required to do the upgrade on your boxes.) So, install the bootlbocks first thing, then do the rest of the ELF upgrade. , by which time it's too late because you have replaced the kernel > and you can no longer boot. That's a straw-man. # cd /sys/compile/KERNEL # make install # disklabel -B wd0 Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message