On Thu, Sep 30, 1999 at 08:17:16AM +1000, Adam Strohl wrote:
>On Wed, 29 Sep 1999, Jim Bloom wrote:
>
>>I believe this must be fixed. At some point in time, there is going
>>to be another change to the kernel such that some older version of the
>>code cannot run on a new kernel.
>
>FTPing a GENERIC kernel from somewhere would solve this, then just
>single user the box, make world. Build your kernel. Reboot.
This assumes that your old world can work correctly with your new
kernel (remembering that `make world' is seen as our standard system
stress test). The whole justification for the `install the world
then upgrade the kernel' approach has been that we _do_not_ guarantee
this.
>Furthermore, for when 4.0 becomes a -R or -S, ftping in a compiled kernel
>shouldn't be that hard of a price to pay for going from 3.2.
We've never required this before. I managed to convert from 2.2.6 to
-current using `make upgrade'. Why should I need to FTP a kernel
from another machine to go from 3.x to 4.x?
Peter
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