On 12/12/2003 7:01 AM, Zoran Kikic wrote: >>This isn't the recommended method of updating a system. >>Did you do a "make buildworld"? See src/UPDATING. >> >>-- >>Steve >> > > > hm, I did 'cd /usr/src && make && make buildworld && make installworld' > after the kernel rebuild. > > > Zoran See also the handbook: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/makeworld.html To summarize (replacing "MYKERNEL" with the name of your kernel config file): 1) "cd /usr/src" 2) "make buildworld" 3) "make buildkernel KERNCONF=MYKERNEL" 4) "make installkernel KERNCONF=MYKERNEL" 5) Reboot into single-user mode to test kernel (also mount and swapon) 6) "cd /usr/src" 7) "make installworld" 8) "mergemaster" 9) "shutdown -r now" Most of the time you can skip steps 5 and 6 (useful when administrating a machine remotely), but this is not supported and has gotten me into trouble on several occasions. Then again, I would have known not to skip them if I had read UPDATING... Jon NoackReceived on Fri Dec 12 2003 - 12:28:26 UTC
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