Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 19:01:59 -0500 From: Dave Uhring <duhring@charter.net> To: "Juha Saarinen" <juha@saarinen.org>, "Stephan van Beerschoten" <stephanb@whacky.net>, "Mike Tancsa" <mike@sentex.net> Cc: "Holtor" <holtor@yahoo.com>, <FreeBSD-Stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Recent fxp Driver Changes Message-ID: <01051719015900.01549@dave.uhring.com> In-Reply-To: <KPECIILENDDLPCNIMLOFCEKGCEAA.juha@saarinen.org> References: <KPECIILENDDLPCNIMLOFCEKGCEAA.juha@saarinen.org>
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On Thursday 17 May 2001 06:11 pm, Juha Saarinen wrote: > :: To avoid the error which I made, i.e. losing my recent -STABLE kernel, > :: before you do your buildkernel, copy your present /kernel to > :: /kernel.good. > > make installkernel makes a back-up of the existing kernel, before > installing the new one. > > :: Delay making installworld until you have rebooted with the new kernel > :: and checked your networking ability. Only then run make installworld, > :: etc. > > Hmmm... won't that mean your world and kernel are out of synch, which > might cause further issues? > > -- Juha Unfortunately, after you make two kernel installs, your original and good -STABLE kernel is gone. I had to rebuild the kernel 4 or 5 times before the cvsup repository contained the correct sources. If your backup kernel is sufficiently recent, out-of-sync problems are minimal, as it was in my case. My kernel.GENERIC was from 4.3RC2, which was recent enough that I was able to get the NIC to work well enough to do several cvsup's to finally get the correct sources. My advice is from personal experience and it stands. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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