From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Oct 28 22:07:11 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA08232 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 28 Oct 1998 22:07:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from picnic.mat.net (picnic.mat.net [206.246.122.117]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA08215 for ; Wed, 28 Oct 1998 22:07:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from chuckr@mat.net) Received: from localhost (chuckr@localhost) by picnic.mat.net (8.9.1/8.8.5) with ESMTP id BAA10318; Thu, 29 Oct 1998 01:04:51 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1998 01:04:50 -0500 (EST) From: Chuck Robey To: Mike Smith cc: Stephen Hocking-Senior Programmer PGS Tensor Perth , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The new bootloader - how do you set it up? In-Reply-To: <199810290446.UAA00420@dingo.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 28 Oct 1998, Mike Smith wrote: > > Can someone give me a pointer? I'm still running an a.out kernel on a system > > that was installed from a 3.0 snapshot CD and has been kept upto date via cvs > > since. > > make world > > followed by > > disklabel -B -b /boot/boot1 -s /boot/boot2 > > will upgrade you completely. The visible parts of the new loader are > in /boot/loader, and are updated by 'make world'. Excuse me (I'm worried about doing something inordinately dumb), just to verify, if I do that line above, after a buildworld/installworld, and then build a new kernel with KERNFORMAT set to elf, and install it, I should be running ok, right? All my newly regenned lkms will keep on humming fine, same obj files that powered the aout kernel, right? If I get an answer here, I'll go ahead and take the next step (gulp!) ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@glue.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 213 Lakeside Drive Apt T-1 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and picnic (FreeBSD-current) (301) 220-2114 | and jaunt (NetBSD). ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message