Date: Sun, 5 Nov 2000 22:55:54 -0700 (MST) From: Nate Williams <nate@yogotech.com> To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> Cc: Feisal Umar <afu@webcraft99.com>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Re-Booting new -STABLE Kernel: Failure To Mount Root .. even GENERIC Message-ID: <200011060555.WAA13749@nomad.yogotech.com> In-Reply-To: <200011040728.AAA31225@harmony.village.org> References: <5.0.0.25.0.20001104151525.04ec7ec0@192.168.1.22> <Your message of "Sat, 04 Nov 2000 18:11:12 %2B1300." <Pine.LNX.4.21.0011041806320.7940-100000@vimfuego.saarinen.org> <Pine.LNX.4.21.0011041806320.7940-100000@vimfuego.saarinen.org> <200011040728.AAA31225@harmony.village.org>
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> : but I would be caught in a real mess, in my case, if I installed the latest > : userland tools <make installworld> and find out my new kernel would not > : boot, wouldn't I? > > Yes. You could be. Usually all it means is that ps, top and a few > other minor programs won't work. The one that is scary is when 'mount' quits working. :( Nate > > : I have caught myself before where the <make installworld> binaries leads > : the kernel version (stupid mistakes .. don't remind me why). In my case, > : STABLE-4.2(BETA) against my only working kernel STABLE4.1.1 > > Should mostly work. Definitely well enough to recover from, likely > well enough to boot multiuser and not notice. > > : But .. I digress .... > : Will "/dev/MAKEDEV all" have reasonable chances of working? I have it on > : the console now .. waiting for the ENTER keystroke :) > : My only doubts are because I have no idea why I am doing it, which goes > : against what I usually do with production machines. On a hindsight, my > : /dev/MAKEDEV is dated July 18 - Kernel is STABLE-4.1.1 Oct 20. > > cd /dev > sh MAKEDEV all > > should work, but likely won't change a thing unless you've > specifically blown away devices that you need. A 4.1.1-stable to > 4.2-beta upgrade shouldn't need these sorts of things as there haven't > been, iirc, any changes to the devices in the typical boot path. > Might need it for sound but even then it should be ok. > > note, MAKEDEV all won't recreate disk slices, but for such a small > upgrade (in terms of number of big bad changes), you shouldn't need > to. > > > Warner > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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