From owner-freebsd-current Thu Oct 24 16:55:18 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 67D6337B401 for ; Thu, 24 Oct 2002 16:55:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rootlabs.com (root.org [67.118.192.226]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1242343E4A for ; Thu, 24 Oct 2002 16:55:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nate@rootlabs.com) Received: (qmail 70297 invoked by uid 1000); 24 Oct 2002 23:55:15 -0000 Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2002 16:55:15 -0700 (PDT) From: Nate Lawson To: Mike Hunter Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installworld fails building Current from 4.7-R In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [Redirected to current@ with sender's approval] On Thu, 24 Oct 2002, Mike Hunter wrote: > On Thu, 24 Oct 2002, Nate Lawson wrote: > > > That's why there is a "reboot" between installing the new kernel and doing > > installworld. You need to run the new kernel to have the ABI match. > > From my understanding of what was written earlier today (and what the guy > who was helping me said) the boot loader is not updated during that first > reboot, and therefore the old kernel is booted on that reboot. > 5.0-current moves the default location of the kernel IIRC. > > I'm pretty sure that I followed the UPDATING directions to the letter. > > Mike I've run into the same problem in the past but manually selected the new kernel. Should we add the explicit step that you need to load /boot/kernel/kernel when upgrading? Or has that been fixed? -Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message