From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 28 6:28:44 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rdc1.va.home.com (ha1.rdc1.va.home.com [24.2.32.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B7D1237B5B3 for ; Sun, 28 May 2000 06:28:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from john.baldwin.cx ([24.6.244.187]) by mail.rdc1.va.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.02.00 201-229-116) with ESMTP id <20000528132841.CSPD22611.mail.rdc1.va.home.com@john.baldwin.cx>; Sun, 28 May 2000 06:28:41 -0700 Content-Length: 1749 X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20000528044927.67544.qmail@hotmail.com> Date: Sun, 28 May 2000 09:28:40 -0400 (EDT) Organization: BSD, Inc. From: John Baldwin To: John Daniels Subject: Re: Kernel making problems Cc: otterr@telocity.com, imp@village.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-Id: <20000528132841.CSPD22611.mail.rdc1.va.home.com@john.baldwin.cx> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 28-May-00 John Daniels wrote: > Hi: > > Warner Losh writes: >>In message >> Jaye >>Mathisen writes: >>: Wasn't there just a big to-do wrt to 4.0 (then -current), about the >>: right way to do things is to install a new kernel, then build the >>: world? >> >>Yes. That was needed for a while since the new binaries produced >>code the olkd kernel couldn't execute. > > I am no expert, and I haven't really followed this thread, but wasn't it > recommended to: > make buildworld > make and install new kernel > make installworld > when upgrading 3.4 to 4.0? Well, you had to do a bit more than this do to the lack of an install-tools target during the world process. Once the install-tools portion is finished, then, yes, this will always work, and it will work if you are already running 4.0 to get around this recent binutils change. > Otherwise, (as per the handbook) the order is: > > make buildworld > make installworld > update /etc and /dev (and optionally /stand) > make and install new kernel This is fine as well. > Also: FYI, www.freebsddiary.com shows an ordering that puts the /etc and > /dev updates (via mergemaster) *AFTER* making and installing the kernel. > (I'm not sure if that is correct procedure, or if it matters, but it differs > from the handbook) I don't think it matters, since until you reboot, you are still running the old kernel, and you won't run the rc scripts until you reboot, for example. > John -- John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.cslab.vt.edu/~jobaldwi/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message