From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Dec 7 12: 7:19 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.watson.org [204.156.12.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 32CAE37B41A for ; Fri, 7 Dec 2001 12:07:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (doug@localhost) by fledge.watson.org (8.11.6/8.11.5) with SMTP id fB7K71I47069 for ; Fri, 7 Dec 2001 15:07:02 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from doug@safeport.com) X-Authentication-Warning: fledge.watson.org: doug owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2001 15:07:01 -0500 (EST) From: doug X-Sender: doug@fledge.watson.org To: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Error compiling kernel after cvsup In-Reply-To: <200112071728.fB7HSUd28109@ptavv.es.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 yes - thanks On Fri, 7 Dec 2001, Kevin Oberman wrote: > > Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2001 11:27:05 -0500 (EST) > > From: doug > > Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG > > > > Your first email sorta implied you were doing thing in the wrong order > > which should be: > > > > make buildworld > > make buildkernel KERNCONF=client > > make installkernel KERNCONF=client > > make installworld > > mergemaster > > reboot > > [cut] > While the order is correct, for the safest way to do this you need to > add a step: > make buildworld > make buildkernel KERNCONF=client > make installkernel KERNCONF=client > reboot to single user mode (NOT the same as a shutdown to single-user!) > make installworld > mergemaster > reboot > > This assures that your new kernel will actually boot before you commit > to replacing your entire userland and possibly leave your system dead > until you can restore the prior userland. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message