Matt Smith wrote on 09/04/2016 18:21:
On Sep 04 16:35, Julian H. Stacey wrote:
Hi, Reference:
From: "Julian H. Stacey" <j...@berklix.com>
Date: Sun, 04 Sep 2016 13:37:26 +0200
"Julian H. Stacey" wrote:
Hi stable@ people
In a jail, uname -r 10.3-RELEASE-p4, I started
cd /usr/src ; make buildworld,
then realised per
https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/makeworld.html
I will not be able to
make installkernel ; reboot
preceeding
make installworld
Am I on route to shooting myself in the foot ?
It survived. No shot foot :-)
It should work in most cases but there are always some edge cases where
it can fail.
Just to let you know. I have done this for years on versions 4 through
to 10 and never had a single problem. Only on minor version upgrades
though from say 10.2 to 10.3. My procedure is:
make -j4 buildworld && make -j4 buildkernel
make installkernel
make installworld
mergemaster
shutdown -r now
make delete-old
make delete-old-libs
I do this because I don't have a keyboard or monitor on the machine
during normal use. This has *always* worked fine. However for a major
version upgrade from say 10.x to 11.x I have always done it the correct
and proper way using single user mode via the console.
I never did it in single user. There were some cases where it emitted
warnings in the case of upgrade from 8.4 to 10.2 but it was fixed by
second run of installkernel && installworld before "shutdown -r now" and
then everything booted fine.
Miroslav Lachman
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