On 2002-12-22 17:19, walt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Martin Hasenbein wrote:
>> I've tried to upgrade to -current a few minutes ago. Before
>> upgrading I had FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE-p2
>>
>> After a "make buildworld / make buildkernel /make installkernel"
>> and rebooting, I still have FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE-p2
>
> Sounds like you are rebooting with the old kernel in the / directory
> instead of the new kernel which is now in the /boot/kernel
> directory.
>
> If you interrupt the boot loader by hitting SPACE, you can then type
> 'unload' and then 'load /boot/kernel/kernel' then 'boot' which will
> boot the new kernel.
>
> I've never done the upgrade path, so I'm not sure how you are
> supposed to avoid this problem. Maybe you are doing things in the
> wrong sequence or skipping steps?
By editing /boot/loader.conf before rebooting and changing `bootfile'
to the new location of the kernel:
bootfile="/boot/kernel/kernel"
you can instruct the loader to load the new kernel by default.
Perhaps we should add this to the instructions of UPDATING for
upgrades of 4.X to 5.X :-/
- Giorgos
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