Date: Sat, 29 May 1999 01:55:37 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> To: Charles Owens <owensc@enc.edu> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: boot loader worry: moving from 3.0-current to -STABLE Message-ID: <374ECA89.4E63497C@newsguy.com> References: <374EA01C.ED16497@enc.edu>
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Charles Owens wrote: > > I've just read a message or two on one of the lists about some updates > to the boot loader code that have happened recently in -STABLE. I have > a particular remote system (located in eastern Europe, actually) that > I'm in the process of upgrading, and I'd appreciate it very much if > someone could assure me that the new boot loader arrangement will not > keep my the system from coming back up once I reboot. Well, I have seen only one such message. All the changes to loader were gradually introduced on -current, and left there a *long* while before brought into -stable. And they were brought into -stable at least two weeks before 3.2, I think. If you want to absolutely avoid any possible problem (that I can think of), remove the file /boot/loader.rc that is installed by 3.2. Of course, the system *should* work with that file as installed, but since someone complained, I can't dismiss the possibility that there could possibly be a situation where things did not work after the upgrade. The upgrade in the loader itself should cause no trouble to anyone. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org "If at first you don't succeed, skydiving is not for you." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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