i need my floppy disk drive.

[Ivan Voras]

Brooks Davis wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 10:10:45PM +0200, Ivan Voras wrote:
> 
>>h wrote:
>>
>>>is it safe to upgrade to current when i'm used to -release ?
>>
>>I'd say *definetely NO!*. I made the similar mistake a week or so ago, 
>>and now the -current kernel mis-recognizes my root ATA drive (can't 
>>boot; I'm stuck in running 5.2-R kernel on a 5-current world; sigh).
> 
> 
> This situation is caused by failure to follow the step by step
> instructions in UPDATING.  They very clearly state you should try your
> new kernel before updating your world.  If you do that, the risk should
> be fairly minimal.

I'm not complaining - it's on my home machine (I wouldn't even run 
-current on something important). I'm just puzzled because the error is 
weird (in short: disabling WITNESS causes my drive to be mis-recognized; 
I *can* run the same kernel with WITNESS enabled without problems, but I 
dont want to :) ), and there were no responses or similar errors 
reported from other people. Just my luck I guess :(