after upgrade from 6.0 to 6.1

[Lowell Gilbert]

"Zimmerman, Eric" <Zimmerman.Eric at con-way.com> writes:

>>Your procedure is almost identical to mine but I usually reboot after installing
>>the new kernel, test it and then drop into single user mode to do the rest.
>>The only exception is your step #7, I don't do it and wondering why you
>>have it in there. Maybe I've been doing it wrong all along....
>>
>>-Yuri
>
>  
> i think thats out of the handbook if i recall.  here is the reference:
>  
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/makeworld.html
>  
> under section 21.4.5
>  
> no issues so far. its just another way to get into single user mode after a reboot.
>  
> i do the kernel stuff in multiuser mode, all the other compiling in
> multiuser mode, and then drop to single user mode to installworld.

As long as you boot into the new kernel before doing the installworld.
If you've done the installworld before you know that the kernel works,
you're going to be very unhappy if it doesn't.