Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2000 21:43:37 -0800 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@urx.com> To: Juha Saarinen <juha@saarinen.org> Cc: Feisal Umar <afu@webcraft99.com>, "freebsd-stable@freebsd.org" <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Re-Booting new -STABLE Kernel: Failure To Mount Root .. even GENERIC Message-ID: <3A03A209.42953174@urx.com> References: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0011041806320.7940-100000@vimfuego.saarinen.org>
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Juha Saarinen wrote: > > The documentation is convoluted, but if I understand it right > you do: > > make buildworld > edit the kernel config file > make buildkernel > make installkernel > make installworld > mergemaster > > ... and so forth. Then you reboot. This sequence works for me, but if it > isn't correct, I'd like to know. Warner's instructions in /usr/src/UPDATING have a boot to single user mode between the installkernel and the installworld. He also states this may not be necessary. I have 3 different FreeBSD machines that are running 4-stable and the only thing that doesn't work well, is doing all of this from an xterm on the computer being upgraded. KDE will sometimes cause hang in perhaps 1 out of 6 or 7 tries. The frequency could be less often than that. I have a shell script that does everything from the cvsup to the installworld. It builds a log with a date timestamp for each step. I don't run mergemaster from the ssh session. When the script finishes, I tail all 4 make log files and if they finished properly, I log off and walk down to the console and do the mergemaster and reboot. Kent > > -- > Regards, > > Juha > > PGP fingerprint: > B7E1 CC52 5FCA 9756 B502 10C8 4CD8 B066 12F3 9544 > > On Sat, 4 Nov 2000, Feisal Umar wrote: > > > Juha, > > > > Perhaps the list is tired of this - but I cant help wondering: > > > > Isnt the recommended way is to re-boot with the NEW kernel first, before > > building the userland tools ? > > Apologies if I trip myself on this > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kbstew99@hotmail.com http://kstewart.urx.com/kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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