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. I believe this situation has occurred before. This will lead
> to a situation where a new kernel is required before the build and a new build
> is required before the new kernel is installed. We cannot have this paradox.
FTPing a GENERIC kernel from somewhere would solve this, then just
single user the box, make world. Build your kernel. Reboot.
I have to side with the people who say that this being a problem for
someone means that person shouldn't be running -current.
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.
/stand/sysinstall based upgrades could easily seemlessly take care of
this, too.
I'm sure people are working on a fix for having to do this, but doing it
just isn't this big of a deal. Maybe I'm missing something.
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