Hi all, Here's a quicky... I've been running around upgrading some boxes to 6.2 from 4.11 using the directions in UPDATING. I noticed that in the 4.x to 5.x step it's basically mandatory to install the new bootloader: cd /sys/boot make STRIP= install I see no such notes in the 5.x to 6.x guide. Should I repeat this process? I figure having the latest bootloader should not cause problems, correct? Thanks, Charles
> Date: Wed, 9 May 2007 01:54:15 -0400 (EDT) > From: Charles Sprickman <spork@bway.net> > Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@freebsd.org > > Hi all, > > Here's a quicky... > > I've been running around upgrading some boxes to 6.2 from 4.11 using the > directions in UPDATING. I noticed that in the 4.x to 5.x step it's > basically mandatory to install the new bootloader: > > cd /sys/boot > make STRIP= install > > I see no such notes in the 5.x to 6.x guide. > > Should I repeat this process? I figure having the latest bootloader > should not cause problems, correct?V5 is when UFS2 was introduced as well as moving the kernel and modules locations. That is why the need to re-build boot. This has not happened since V5, so there is no need to manually re-build the boot again. It gets re-built in any case. The procedure in the 4 to 5 upgrade was to allow the boot of the newly built kernel. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 Key fingerprint:059B 2DDF 031C 9BA3 14A4 EADA 927D EBB3 987B 3751 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 224 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/attachments/20070509/47537a19/attachment.pgp
On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 01:54:15AM -0400 I heard the voice of Charles Sprickman, and lo! it spake thus:> > I've been running around upgrading some boxes to 6.2 from 4.11 using > the directions in UPDATING. I noticed that in the 4.x to 5.x step > it's basically mandatory to install the new bootloader:FWIW, I moved some (the last, I think; yay!) 4.x boxes up to 6.x last weekend. I did NOT install a new bootloader before booting the 5.x kernel, but I DID have a serial console available to manually point it at the new location for that boot (the installworld after that put the new loader in place so I didn't have to do it manually after that). That was enough. -- Matthew Fuller (MF4839) | fullermd@over-yonder.net Systems/Network Administrator | http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/ On the Internet, nobody can hear you scream.