On Tue, Mar 07, 2000 at 10:19:57AM -0800, Brooks Davis wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 07, 2000 at 11:01:09AM +0000, Nik Clayton wrote:
> > To which the response has been nil. At this point, you're either all
> > struck dumb by the staggering simplicity and elegance of this approach,
> > or you're sat there slowly shaking your head, wondering how I could be
> > quite so stupid :-)
> >
> > Come on then, which is it?
>
> To be honest it seems like a complete waste of time and a hugh pain in
> the rear. All you need to do is build a 4.0 kernel, install it under
> some random name (say /kernel.current) boot with it to insure that it
> works.
That, at least, was not the case with an upgrade I attempted a few days
ago. On booting with kernel.GENERIC (from -current) it hung mounting the
disks. Trying to go back to kernel.stable didn't work, because I'd had
to update the /dev entries for -current, and they wouldn't work with
-stable. I had to dig out fixit floppies and restore from a backup.
Ordinarily, you'd make sure that userland, /dev, and the kernel are all
in sync before you reboot. However, in this case (and as advised by
src/UPDATING) you have to reboot with a new kernel after updating /dev,
but before you update the userland.
N
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