Matthew Jacob writes:
>
> > Can't you boot from the old kernel? Or have you already wiped the
>
> I can boot the old kernel. A MAKEDEV using the new MAKEDEV has now wiped
> all block devs, so swapon, etc. ,fail.. However, this is the conundrum-
> it's not safe to do a 'make installworld' on a two week old kernel, but
> the new kernel with old mount, fsck, etc., obviously cannot cope with the
> new 'raw-only' devices.
>
> An experience like this will move users to OpenBSD. This kind of jump up
> is completely unacceptable.
Slow down. You are getting screwed by a combination of things. It
isn't all phk's fault.
The bdev elimination is one factor, but the most important one (the
fsck/mount segv) is due to int/long breakage introduced version 1.85
of mount.h. This happened at the worst possible time (just after the
bdev elimination).
If I wasn't such a timid committer, I would have just committed the
damned fix yesterday, before running it by Kirk & you wouldn't have
had this problem. I tried to be vocal about it (messages to -alpha
and -committers), but I guss that wasn't enought.
Sorry,
Drew
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