From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Jul 25 22:55:54 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A973537B400 for ; Thu, 25 Jul 2002 22:55:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from spork.pantherdragon.org (spork.pantherdragon.org [206.29.168.146]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F17E43E3B for ; Thu, 25 Jul 2002 22:55:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dmp@pantherdragon.org) Received: from sparx.pantherdragon.org (evrtwa1-ar10-4-61-236-062.evrtwa1.dsl-verizon.net [4.61.236.62]) by spork.pantherdragon.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3913471D8; Thu, 25 Jul 2002 22:55:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pantherdragon.org (speck.techno.pagans [172.21.42.2]) by sparx.pantherdragon.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC150FDA0; Thu, 25 Jul 2002 22:55:44 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3D40E460.D3A5F753@pantherdragon.org> Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 22:55:44 -0700 From: Darren Pilgrim X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Chris Pepper Cc: Kevin Oberman , Paulo Fragoso , Alexandr Kovalenko , Gavin Atkinson , Michiel Boland , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.6-RELEASE -> 4.5-RELENG References: <20020710175614.7F3535D03@ptavv.es.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Chris Pepper wrote: > At 10:56 AM -0700 2002/07/10, Kevin Oberman wrote: > >make kernel KERNCONF=your_kernel_conf_name > > Why not 'make installkernel' per > ? > Is there a problem with the Handbook? The "kernel" target is an alias for buildkernel && installkernel. > >REBOOT into single-user mode! (This does not mean drop to single user.) > > Why? Is this to test installkernel -- which I don't see in > your list? I've been using "shutdown now" successfully for a while > now; much easier not to have to remount & set the TZ before > installkernel, You don't have to drop to single-user to do installkernel. > then rebooting (multi) to test the kernel, then > "shutdown now" to installworld. The entire point of rebooting is to replace the in-memory kernel with the one you just built. If it's not usable, you can boot /kernel.old and get back to a working system, rebuild the kernel, and try again. If you installworld before rebooting, and the new kernel doesn't work, then you've got a world with no kernel to run it and no easy way to fix it. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message