can i just upgrade the 8.1 kernel ?

[Alexandre L.]

I think you have not understood the handbook.
You MUST rebuild both base system and kernel to correctly upgrade your FreeBSD box to 8.1-RELEASE. 
If you let your system in 8.0-RELEASE and compile a kernel with 8.1 sources, you will have problem.
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/makeworld.html

--- En date de : Ven 23.7.10, zaxis <z_axis at 163.com> a écrit :

> De: zaxis <z_axis at 163.com>
> Objet: can i just upgrade the 8.1 kernel ?
> À: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> Date: Vendredi 23 juillet 2010, 7h01
> 
> >uname -a
> FreeBSD mybsd.zsoft.com 8.0-RELEASE-p2 FreeBSD
> 8.0-RELEASE-p2 #0: Wed Jul 14
> 15:35:26 CST 2010    
> root at mybsd.zsoft.com:/media/G/usr/obj/media/G/usr/src/sys/MYKERNEL 
> i386
> 
> Can i just use the following commands to upgrade to 8.1
> kernel ? And does
> the virtualbox-ose still work under 8.1 ?
> 
> # csup -g -L 2 -h cvsup.freebsd.org
> /usr/share/examples/cvsup/standard-supfile
> # cd /usr/src
> # make buildkernel KERNCONF=MYKERNEL
> # make installkernel KERNCONF=MYKERNEL
> 
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