From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Oct 11 18: 2:15 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 59CA437B401 for ; Fri, 11 Oct 2002 18:02:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.rotfl.com.au (eth1779.sa.adsl.internode.on.net [150.101.235.242]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D3FBD43E91 for ; Fri, 11 Oct 2002 18:02:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Phil@Kernick.org) Received: by mail.rotfl.com.au (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id g9C129YQ081422 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5 bits=128 verify=NO); Sat, 12 Oct 2002 10:32:10 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from Phil@Kernick.org) Message-ID: <3DA77491.6030801@Kernick.org> Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2002 10:32:09 +0930 From: Phil Kernick User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Aragon Gouveia Cc: Jamie Heckford , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Compiling a New Kernel References: <006801c27102$7a170f00$3264a8c0@BONG> <20021011085546.GA43708@xor.obsecurity.org> <008601c27106$300ee460$3264a8c0@BONG> <20021011233745.GA20065@phat.za.net> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.65.2.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Aragon Gouveia wrote: > Ideally you should build, install, and boot your new kernel before > installing your new world. If your new kernel fails to boot for whatever > reason, you can easily boot the old kernel and have a fully functional > system again. If you installworld before verifying your new kernel, you > could run into worse problems if your new kernel doesn't load and you > have to boot the old kernel with your new world. The only problem that I have with this approach, is that I keep all of my source on a vinum raid-5 volume. If I reboot before doing a make installworld, then there is always the possibility that with the new kernel and the old world I may not be able to mount the volume. So I always shutdown but *not* reboot before doing the installworld. Phil. -- _-_|\ Phil Kernick E-Mail: Phil@Kernick.org / \ ROTFL Enterprises Mobile: 041 61 ROTFL \_.-*_/ v Humourist, satirist, and probably a few more 'ists to boot! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message