Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 11:44:32 -0800 (PST) From: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org> To: "Jeffrey J. Libman" <jeffrl@wantabe.com> Cc: Daniel Boyd <Daniel.Boyd@vacationclub.com>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADS UP: 3.x -> 4.0-STABLE upgrade instructions Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003161142170.63685-100000@freefall.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003160740510.41362-100000@cutter.wantabe.com>
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On Thu, 16 Mar 2000, Jeffrey J. Libman wrote:
> interesting. i have managed to do my "make installworld" updates on 3.4
> without dropping to single user in the past. i know this is often
> ill-advised...but i seem to get away with it. is this not possible in
> future releases? or is this only super critical with the 3.4->4.0 upgrade?
It's always the recommended practise, but it's only critical when major
things change. In particular, you're likely not even to be able to boot
into multi-user mode at the point when you've installed a 4.0 kernel but
haven't yet done the installworld, if you try and load things like KLD
modules (e.g. if you have linux_enable="Yes" the system will probably
panic at boot time because of the very stale KLD).
Kris
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