Re: Building a new system to current
Hi, I'm in the process of setting up a new FreeBSD-current box, starting with 3.0 Release, and moving to current. One question I have, is whether to go to the ELF kernel before I recompile the world with current source. My plan is as follows: - Load 3.0-RELEASE (done) - archive and delete all a.out tools (done) - update to the new bootblocks (done) - move to ELF kernel Installing the Jan 12th snapshopt gives you all of this already, and no a.out cruft anywhere in sight. Apart from the comments in src/UPDATING, Peter Wemm's ELF day web page, and Robert Nordiers page on the new bootblocks, can anyone think of anything I should take into account? Nothing immediately obvious - you've taken a slightly longer path but I think you'll end up in the right place. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ m...@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msm...@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msm...@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with unsubscribe freebsd-current in the body of the message
Re: Building a new system to current
Mike Smith writes : Installing the Jan 12th snapshopt gives you all of this already, and no a.out cruft anywhere in sight. After a bit of thought - I think I will take this advice. Blowing the achine I have installed away is quicker than trying to juggle some of the recent changes! geoff. -- Geoff Rehmet, The Internet Solution geo...@is.co.za; ge...@rucus.ru.ac.za; c...@freebsd.org tel: +27-83-292-5800 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with unsubscribe freebsd-current in the body of the message
RE: Building a new system to current
- update to the new bootblocks (done) - move to ELF kernel Installing the Jan 12th snapshopt gives you all of this already, and no a.out cruft anywhere in sight. Warning: make world doesn't upgrade the bootblocks as I just detected. I tried disklabel -B before but it complained that the device was busy (of course). Time to read the fallback section )-: Groetjes, Berend. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with unsubscribe freebsd-current in the body of the message
Re: Building a new system to current
Berend de Boer wrote: - update to the new bootblocks (done) - move to ELF kernel Installing the Jan 12th snapshopt gives you all of this already, and no a.out cruft anywhere in sight. Warning: make world doesn't upgrade the bootblocks as I just detected. I tried disklabel -B before but it complained that the device was busy (of course). A Device busy is most likely due to specifying the full path of a block device disklabel -B /dev/da0s2a The best approach is to specify just the drive disklabel -B da0 or the slice, if you have more than one FreeBSD slice per drive disklabel -B da0s3 -- Robert Nordier To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with unsubscribe freebsd-current in the body of the message
