On 02-Nov-2002 Ned Wolpert wrote:
> Folks-
>
> I've ran into problem upgrading to -current from RELENG_4 after the
> 'make installkernel' process. One the kernel was installed, I rebooted.
> However, the old 4.7 kernel was loaded instead of the new -current
> kernel. I read from the archive about how the old /modules directory
> can cause problems, when loading the 5.x kernel, but that's not the
> issue since the wrong kernel was loaded in the first place. Now, when I
> forced /boot/kernel/kernel, the system failed completely. (No error
> message, the loading never occurred as the whole system froze.) Could
> that have been from the old /modules directory?
>
> Anyways, the question is when doing an upgrade, what's the best method
> to update the loader? It isn't installed by default. (From what I could
> tell)
Read the UPDATING file very carefully. You'll see that one of the steps in
upgrading from 4.x to 5.0 is updating the boot blocks.
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