From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Jan 3 12:32:23 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA04234 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Sun, 3 Jan 1999 12:32:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (castles317.castles.com [208.214.167.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA04229 for ; Sun, 3 Jan 1999 12:32:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (LOCALHOST [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA07127; Sun, 3 Jan 1999 12:29:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199901032029.MAA07127@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Jt cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Aout-to-elf Conversion In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 03 Jan 1999 10:27:06 EST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 03 Jan 1999 12:29:06 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > Would converting a.out to elf at the same time you upgrade to 3.0 > need the boot blocks installed ? or would the system still > boot up after upgrade ? You need at least the loader in place before using an ELP kernel. > Any faq on this or will there be ? I don't see much info on the boot > blocks. See Robert Nordier's posts, and www.freebsd.org/~rnordier/boot.txt -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message