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Date:      Thu, 24 Oct 2002 16:55:15 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Nate Lawson <nate@root.org>
To:        Mike Hunter <mhunter@ack.Berkeley.EDU>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Installworld fails building Current from 4.7-R
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0210241651290.70218-100000@root.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.31.0210241558260.23517-100000@ack.Berkeley.EDU>

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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


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