Unattended reboot was Re: signal 12's everywhere on Currentwith
update this morning.
Eric Anderson
anderson at centtech.com
Fri Nov 14 07:04:04 PST 2003
Sheldon Hearn wrote:
>On (2003/11/13 14:02), Eric Anderson wrote:
>
>
>
>>I'm not having any luck - I'm started to feel like I'm missing something
>>here :)
>>
>>I cvsup'd yesterday afternoon, and did my usual make buildworld, kernel,
>>install kernel, single user mode, then make installworld - except it
>>bombed on the installworld. I ignored the message moved on.
>>
>>
>
>You missed a step. The HEADS UP sent to -current said you needed to
>reboot between kernel install and world install.
>
>This is the strictly safe way of upgrading always. However, many people
>skip the reboot (and even the drop to single-user mode) as a shortcut.
>Sometimes, the shortcut works. This time, it doesn't. :-)
>
Unfortunately, I had unsubscribed myself from the list a few weeks ago
when I went to a Usenix conference, and forgot to resubscribe! Woops.
All fixed up now though. At least now I know what I did wrong - thanks!
Eric
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