8.0-BETA2 Available

[Aristedes Maniatis]

On 18/07/09 1:29 PM, Ken Smith wrote:
> # freebsd-update upgrade -r 8.0-BETA2
>
> During this process, FreeBSD Update may ask the user to help by merging some
> configuration files or by confirming that the automatically performed merging
> was done correctly.
>
> # freebsd-update install
>
> The system must be rebooted with the newly installed kernel before continuing.
>
> # shutdown -r now


FreeBSD 7 users who have /usr /var, etc on ZFS should not follow these 
instructions exactly. Rebooting into a new kernel with the old userland 
ZFS tools will result in the system not being able to mount the ZFS 
filesystems and therefore not being able to reboot. [1]

Ari Maniatis


[1] See my more detailed comment at the bottom here: 
http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2009-07-11-freebsd-update-to-8.0-beta1.html




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