From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Sep 28 20:56:37 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from marvin.nildram.co.uk (marvin.nildram.co.uk [195.112.4.71]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D2B2B37B40B for ; Fri, 28 Sep 2001 20:56:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 9403 invoked from network); 29 Sep 2001 03:56:31 -0000 Received: from muttley.gotadsl.co.uk (HELO VicNBob) (213.208.123.26) by marvin.nildram.co.uk with SMTP; 29 Sep 2001 03:56:31 -0000 Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2001 04:56:33 +0100 To: Guilherme Oliveira , stable@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: Francisco Cabrita (NovoDesign) From: Matthew Whelan Subject: Re: RELENG_4 buildworld errors X-Mailer: Opera 5.11 build 904 X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Message-Id: <20010929035633.D2B2B37B40B@hub.freebsd.org> 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 29/09/2001 04:45:57, Guilherme Oliveira wrote: >Well, thanks for the answers, you were fast !!! > >So I've learned: buildworld, installworld, buildkernel, installkernel, >mergemaster ... in this order. This is -not- the recommended order... this is: make buildworld make buildkernel KERNCONF=... [reboot if running securelevel 1 - I found installkernel had disappointing results when I tried to skip this :)] make installkernel KERNCONF=... reboot into new kernel, single user make installworld mergemaster Reason being if your kernel compile screws, you may have grave difficulty in rolling back - old kernel + new world is much less reliable than new kernel + old world, and rollback of the world from -STABLE to an earlier state isn't supported, except of course by restoring that backup you took before upgrading ;p Restoring an old kernel, however, is child's play - the installkernel rule leaves it lying around for you as /kernel.old, along with the old modules in /modules.old/ HTH, HAND Matthew >And maybe I've screwed files date, because freebsd it's doing dual >booting with Windows ME to test my webpages in IE, so this is surely the >reason. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message