Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 21:14:18 -0600 (MDT) From: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@village.org> To: kris@obsecurity.org Cc: Jeff.Kelly@t-online.de, sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: upgrade from 4.5 to current fails Message-ID: <20020424.211418.124988185.imp@village.org> In-Reply-To: <20020424192740.A19539@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <20020424162052.A14802@xor.obsecurity.org> <20020424.195842.74627617.imp@village.org> <20020424192740.A19539@xor.obsecurity.org>
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Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> writes:
: On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 07:58:42PM -0600, M. Warner Losh wrote:
: > In message: <20020424162052.A14802@xor.obsecurity.org>
: > Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> writes:
: > : On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 05:49:52PM +0200, Christian Flügel wrote:
: > :
: > : > But I still get signal 12 exceptions when trying to installworld.
: > : > It seems to me that the install process still uses my old kernel and I am
: > : > not able to load the new one. Could anybody please tell me how to achieve
: > : > this?
: > :
: > : You're still actually running your 4.x kernel. This may be an
: > : omission in the documentation for upgrading to 5.0: you need to
: > : install the new /boot/defaults/ files so that the boot loader will
: > : automatically pick up the changed default location of the 5.0 kernel.
: >
: > Are you sure you need to do that by hand? When I upgraded my laptop I
: > didn't need to do that.
:
: Does installkernel do this already? Otherwise I can't see how the
: updated loader.conf gets into /boot/defaults by this point in the
: instructions.
No. But installworld does in sys/boot/${ARCH}/Makefile seems to do
so.
Warner
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