> -----Original Message----- > From: Kevin Oberman > Sent: 26 November 2001 20:40 > > Probably not your problem, but it could be. > > You are NOT following the published procedure for updating your > system. You should do the following: > 1) make buildworld > 2) make buildkernel > 3) make installkernel > 4) reboot to single user mode > 5) make installworld > > Because you dropping into single user and not re-booting you are: > 1) Not confirming that the new kernel actually works before installing > the whole new system > 2) Running installworld with the old kernel > > That said, I suspect something else is wrong. But following the correct > procedures increases the chances of a successful update by a > significant margin. >
Kevin, thanks for your response. In my eagerness to 'get the job done', I had used 'init 1' (similar to the handbook's suggestion of 'shutdown now') without stopping to think about the fact that this does _NOT_ bring the new kernel into action. I was aware of the 2 reasons you mention, but missed the (admittedly rather obvious) fact that I was not achieving that by means of 'init 1'. Thanks for the wake-up call. So, I followed the second set of options in the handbook 19.4.4 (shutdown, boot -s, mount -u /, etc.). And it worked just fine! Witness: bash-2.05$ uname -a FreeBSD yam.mip.co.za 4.4-STABLE FreeBSD 4.4-STABLE #0: Mon Nov 26 16:22:19 SAST 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/yam i386 So, that just goes to prove - "more haste, less speed". Thanks once again Kevin, and others who responded to my question! Regards, Patrick. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
