Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2002 00:55:53 -0600 (MDT) From: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> To: kientzle@acm.org Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, brooks@one-eyed-alien.net Subject: Re: Building -CURRENT with 4.5-RELEASE Message-ID: <20021025.005553.76485591.imp@bsdimp.com> In-Reply-To: <3DB82EBC.8050007@acm.org> References: <bulk.59627.20021023072030@hub.freebsd.org> <3DB82EBC.8050007@acm.org>
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Tim Kientzle <kientzle@acm.org> writes:
: > On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 11:52:11PM +0200, Gerhard H=E4ring wrote:
:
: >>"make installworld" dumps core at installing passwd (4.5-RELEASE).
:
:
: Brooks Davis:
:
: > Are you running a current kernel at this point? If you aren't it's safe
: > to say it won't work.
:
: The directions in UPDATING leave you running
: an OLD kernel after rebooting into single-user.
: (Installkernel puts the kernel in the new location,
: but the old boot loader is still on disk, so it
: loads the kernel from the old location.) If
: a new kernel is required at this point, then
: UPDATING is wrong or installkernel is wrong.
You are correct about this. I'll update it to include installing the
new bootblocks as well, if that isn't already in there for the 4.x ->
5.0 upgrade path.
Warner
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