From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Mar 17 21:15:27 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from cumin.apnic.net (cumin.apnic.net [202.12.29.59]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC4B837B416 for ; Sun, 17 Mar 2002 21:15:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from durian.apnic.net (durian.apnic.net [202.12.29.252]) by cumin.apnic.net (8.12.1/8.12.1) with ESMTP id g2I5FMHa023140 for ; Mon, 18 Mar 2002 15:15:22 +1000 Received: (from ggm@localhost) by durian.apnic.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g2I5FLC11877 for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Mon, 18 Mar 2002 15:15:21 +1000 Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 15:15:21 +1000 From: George Michaelson Message-Id: <200203180515.g2I5FLC11877@durian.apnic.net> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: is it safe to use the 5.0-current boot / mbr on stable? X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.1 (www dot roaringpenguin dot com slash mimedefang) Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I'd like to play with 5.0-current on a 4.5-stable box. is it safe to use the 5 boot loader with 4.5 kernels? the shift of the kernel & modules to /boot has me worried that the MBR and other low(ish) level logic might not work well. (I'm guessing that without new bootblocks, I can't play, although you would think a farm of hard links could make the boot/kernel stuff appear in the root & /modules/ paths) -George To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message