Hello, I am an old user of FreeBSD. Started using as of version 3.2. After a job change, I had to stop using it when version 7 was under development.
These old days, for a make world, handbook was saying that after successful compilation of world and kernel, we install kernel and then reboot into single user mode. Current handbook is saying that we build world, kernel. Then install kernel and drop into single user mode. No testing of newly build kernel. Old way was ensuring that new kernel is operational. New way; I followed new handbook today. To upgrade system from 11-RELEASE to 11-STABLE. I forgot to add a driver in my custom kernel and when expecting an operational OS after a reboot, I got a crash dump. Then spent sometime to figure whats wrong and fixed. Then rebuild kernel and installed for an operational system. Rebooting into single user mode makes me feel safer for the whole process. Because, I might face with a worse problem than forgetting a driver in my custom kernel. So worse that I cannot fix it myself and have to report and wait for a fix from developers. Such a situation, if I followed new handbook, it is late and I already installed world and all new binaries and libraries. Returning back would be a complete headache for such a situation. Just wanted to share my opinion. Thanks. Regards, Ertan Küçükoğlu _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-doc To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
