Miroslav Lachman wrote: > > > Aristedes Maniatis wrote: >> On 17/11/09 9:14 PM, Ivan Voras wrote: > > [...] > >> Possibly freebsd-update should be maintained as part of the release >> process and not by someone at arm's length to the re team. In recent >> times it has broken rebooting after an update twice: once because of the >> above issue, and earlier when updating from 7.2 to 8.0-beta it was >> impossible to install a new kernel, reboot and then install world. This >> wasn't a freebsd-update specific issue (there is an incompatibility >> between new ZFS kernel modules and old userland tools), but it will bite >> everyone using freebsd-update and ZFS. > > If we are talking about freebsd-update... It would be nice if > freebsd-update leave old kernel available in /boot/ as with source > upgrade (/boot/kernel.old) at least until second reboot (in case of > upgrade), because if new kernel failed to boot after first reboot, then > the machine become unbootable without some kind of LiveFS media. Are you sure it still doesn't do that? I think I saw a recent patch that leaves kernel.old somewhere...Received on Tue Nov 17 2009 - 14:47:10 UTC
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