From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Oct 11 19:56:37 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 5AAA137B401 for ; Fri, 11 Oct 2002 19:56:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E120243E42 for ; Fri, 11 Oct 2002 19:56:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 1308E81437; Sat, 12 Oct 2002 12:26:32 +0930 (CST) Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2002 12:26:32 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Phil Kernick Cc: Aragon Gouveia , Jamie Heckford , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Compiling a New Kernel Message-ID: <20021012025631.GE321@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <006801c27102$7a170f00$3264a8c0@BONG> <20021011085546.GA43708@xor.obsecurity.org> <008601c27106$300ee460$3264a8c0@BONG> <20021011233745.GA20065@phat.za.net> <3DA77491.6030801@Kernick.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3DA77491.6030801@Kernick.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 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 On Saturday, 12 October 2002 at 10:32:09 +0930, Phil Kernick wrote: > 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. I don't anticipate any problems with Vinum after an upgrade. The on-disk format has never changed, and though it's possible in the future, I'd hope it would do so in a compatible manner. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message