Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2001 01:56:58 -0400 From: Neill Robins <freebsd@nc.rr.com> To: Chris BeHanna <behanna@zbzoom.net> Cc: FreeBSD-Stable <stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: shutdown not completing Message-ID: <104704270617.20010616015658@nc.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.32.0106160123280.88179-100000@topperwein.dyndns.org> References: <Pine.BSF.4.32.0106160123280.88179-100000@topperwein.dyndns.org>
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Saturday, June 16, 2001, 1:27:46 AM, Chris BeHanna wrote: CB> On Fri, 15 Jun 2001, Mike Smith wrote: >> > Yes, but I want to go to single user mode to do make installworld. >> >> This is not necessary. CB> It's still in UPDATING. I believe the reason for this is due to: 1) A multi-user system 2) You want as little precesses (daemons) running as possible Going to single user mode helps. It's obvious that during the process you don't want any files to be changed. -- Good Luck, -Neill freebsd@nc.rr.com CB> My sequence: CB> make buildworld CB> make buildkernel CB> make installkernel CB> shutdown -r now CB> At the pause before booting, I strike any key (except return) CB> and then do: CB> unload CB> boot -s CB> At single-user, CB> make installworld CB> mergemaster CB> shutdown -r now CB> It's less than an hour, end-to-end, now that I have a T-bird and DDR CB> SDRAM. :-) CB> The downside is that unless I remember to umount /usr before CB> shutting down, I get a fatal trap 12 that complains about "page fault CB> while in supervisor mode", and it's fsck city on the way back up. CB> Thank goodness / is only 100MB. CB> I keep meaning to transcribe all of the information and post it. CB> If I'm not too bleary-eyed next time, I will. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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