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Date:      Thu, 31 Aug 2000 23:31:44 +1100
From:      Mark.Andrews@nominum.com
To:        Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org>
Cc:        Mark.Andrews@nominum.com, jack <jack@germanium.xtalwind.net>, Gary Kline <kline@thought.org>, Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: stable status.... still hosed 
Message-ID:  <200008311231.e7VCViA37083@drugs.dv.isc.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 31 Aug 2000 12:23:19 %2B0200." <20000831122319.A4143@mithrandr.moria.org> 

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> On Thu 2000-08-31 (15:53), Mark.Andrews@nominum.com wrote:
> > 
> > 	The fact that it compiles does not indicate that it works.
> > 
> > 	There are reports that the system is locking up.  There is
> > 	no all clear on that at present.
> > 
> > 	It's going to be interesting to see how many people end up
> > 	without a working kernel at all now that installkernel has
> > 	changed.  Don't forget to replace kernel with kernel.old.
> 
> Has changed how?  It still creates ".old" backups, at least on my
> system.

	There used to be a manual steps, leaving out the chflags steps.

		cp /kernel /kernel.old
		cp /GENERIC /kernel
	
	A sensible person will leave out the first step if the old kernel
	is hosed.

	Now it is too easy to do:

		/kernel (good)
		buildkernel + installkernel
		/kernel (bad) /kernel.old (good)
		buildkernel + installkernel
		/kernel (bad) /kernel.old (bad)

	as the install moves /kernel to /kernel.old.

	Mark
> 
> Neil
> -- 
> Neil Blakey-Milner
> Sunesi Clinical Systems
> nbm@mithrandr.moria.org
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