Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 10:16:50 -0700 From: Shannon -jj Behrens <jj@nttmcl.com> To: Kevin Oberman <oberman@es.net>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.6-RELEASE -> 4.5-RELENG Message-ID: <20020711101650.B29387@alicia.nttmcl.com> In-Reply-To: <20020710175614.7F3535D03@ptavv.es.net>; from oberman@es.net on Wed, Jul 10, 2002 at 10:56:14AM -0700 References: <20020619150606.J97503-100000@mirage.nlink.com.br> <20020710175614.7F3535D03@ptavv.es.net>
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> I keep posting this because people keep building new systems in a > dangerous way. > > Doing the installworld before building and booting the new kernel is > very risky. It will almost always make no difference, but, on the > rare occasions when it does, it will leave you with a VERY sick > system and the only way out maybe to re-install FreeBSD from scratch. > > While there are a few niggles, the proper sequence is: > mergemaster -p (This is NEW!) > make buildworld > make kernel KERNCONF=your_kernel_conf_name > REBOOT into single-user mode! (This does not mean drop to single user.) > fsck -p > mount -a -t ufs > cd /usr/src > make installworld > mergemaster -i (-a is a bit inadequate unless you go back and clean up > the mess it often leaves before going to multi-user > mode.) > exit (to multi-user mode) Shouldn't "make installkernel" come after "make kernel..."? Let's all give homage to the handbook :) <http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/makeworld.html>; Best Regards, -jj -- Real programmers don't draw flowcharts. Flowcharts are, after all, the illiterate's form of documentation. Cavemen drew flowcharts; look how much good it did them. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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