On Jan 10, 2014, at 23:09 , Fredrik Pettai <[email protected]> wrote: > On Jan 7, 2014, at 14:59 , Jean-Yves Migeon <[email protected]> wrote: >> Le 06/01/2014 20:38, [email protected] a écrit : >>> "Turns out the new kernel tries to pull in entropy from the disk and >>> if the secondary boot loader hasn't been updated that entropy isn't >>> available and the entropy pool gets drawn down quickly, which then >>> reverts to the pseudorandom device needing to generate some. Or >>> something to that effect. Copying /usr/mdec/boot to / is fix." >>> Anyway... maybe helpful for others coming across this after an upgrade. >> >> Yes it is. Thanks for the heads up, bootloader's update is often overlooked >> during upgrade. >> >> People are accustomed to "copy kernel, reboot, tar base.tgz" or similar, >> which is wrong IMHO (misses etcupdate, postinstall...) > > But etcupdate, postinstall doesn't help you with updating the bootloader? > AFAIK, only sysinst does this if you do an upgrade…
Speaking of good procedures of updating the base system, isn't it time to import "sysupdate" (pkgsrc/sysutils/sysupdate) into the NetBSD now? sysupdate makes it much easier to do system updates, and even supports doing unattended updates. /P
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