From owner-freebsd-current Wed Nov 11 17:53:56 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA05395 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 11 Nov 1998 17:53:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from werple.mira.net (werple.mira.net [203.9.190.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id RAA05390 for ; Wed, 11 Nov 1998 17:53:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gfm@mira.net) Received: (qmail 24778 invoked from network); 12 Nov 1998 01:53:33 -0000 Received: from dp-m-q206.werple.net.au (203.17.45.206) by mira.net with SMTP; 12 Nov 1998 01:53:33 -0000 From: gfm@mira.net (Graham Menhennitt) To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Doco on installing new boot blocks (was: Is it soup yet?) Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 01:56:18 GMT Message-ID: <364b0d4f.176091736@mira.net> References: <9940.910772319@zippy.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: <9940.910772319@zippy.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: Forte Agent 1.5/32.451 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id RAA05391 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 11 Nov 1998 00:18:39 -0800, "Jordan K. Hubbard" 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