Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 11:10:27 -0500 From: taxman <taxman@acd.net> To: dan@slightlystrange.org, "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG " <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: 4.7 Upgrade issue Message-ID: <200302261110.27531.taxman@acd.net> In-Reply-To: <20030226145024.GE55640@catflap.home.slightlystrange.org> References: <20030226144352.5202D43FBD@mx1.FreeBSD.org> <20030226145024.GE55640@catflap.home.slightlystrange.org>
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On Wednesday 26 February 2003 09:50 am, Daniel Bye wrote: > On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 02:29:57PM +0000, rew wrote: > > So you boot a new kernel with old system? > > Yes, but how is that so different from installing a new world for an old > kernel? And it's really usually not that big of a deal anyway. I successfully ran a 4.3 kernel on a 4.7 system. I could only make a few problems occur even when trying. top and ps worked just fine. Besides, when you installworld, you should be booting straight to single user mode, so not much is going on to cause problems in installworld. Of course don't try to do anything else when world and kernel are out of sync. Problems come in especially when trying to run a 3.x kernel on a 4.x system and some other cases. Tim > > When you have built a new kernel, you must reboot to start using it. After > running make installworld with the new kernel, you have the new world > installed as well. Your new kernel will only be running for a few minutes > with the old world, until the new one is fully installed. > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Daniel Bye > > Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2003 9:40 AM > > To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > > Subject: Re: 4.7 Upgrade issue > > > > On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 03:23:28PM +0100, Pierrick Brossin wrote: > > > Quoting rew : > > > > You must installkernel and reboot before you can installworld. > > > > Read > > > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/makeworld.h > > > >tml for more details. > > > > > > > > Daniel Bye > > > > > > Hi Daniel ! > > > > > > I made/installed kernel and world quite a few times now and never, > > > never, never reboot before installing world ! > > > > > > - make world > > > - install world > > > - make kernel > > > - install kernel > > > > This looks like the old way of doing things. The new way (buildworld, > > buildkernel etc) is different, and you must boot the new kernel to safely > > and reliably install the new world. > > > > The instructions in the handbook are very explicit in this regard. It is > > the only supported method of updating your system from source, as it is > > the only method that is tested. While some variations work, they may > > create unforeseen problems. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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