Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 01:56:18 GMT From: gfm@mira.net (Graham Menhennitt) To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Doco on installing new boot blocks (was: Is it soup yet?) Message-ID: <364b0d4f.176091736@mira.net> In-Reply-To: <9940.910772319@zippy.cdrom.com> References: <9940.910772319@zippy.cdrom.com>
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On Wed, 11 Nov 1998 00:18:39 -0800, "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com> wrote: >> the ability to run on old bootblocks is how shall I say... >> "required". > >Well, you have and have always had just two options the minute we pull >the elf kernel switch: You switch customers to the 3-stage boot by >dropping a /boot.conf file into place which calls /boot/loader (which >you also install along with the 3.0 upgrade) or you relabel them so >they look just like freshly installed 3.0.x systems; it's your choice >whether you want to go for minimal impact or minimal difference. As somebody who has just upgraded from 2.2-STABLE to 3.0-RELEASE but is still using the old boot blocks (actually, probably those from 2.1.5), I would like to know what's involved in upgrading them. Can someone please point me to some doco. Thanks, Graham To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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