svn commit: r331209 - head

Warner Losh imp at bsdimp.com
Thu Mar 22 04:34:17 UTC 2018


On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 10:03 PM, Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe at freebsd.org>
wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 19, 2018 at 09:20:40AM -0700, John Baldwin wrote:
> > On Monday, March 19, 2018 03:27:53 PM Kyle Evans wrote:
> > > New Revision: 331209
> > > URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/331209
> > >
> > > Log:
> > >   Add note to UPDATING about UEFI changes requiring loader(8) update
> > >   ...
> >
> > How does this fit with the recommended installation steps of doing
> > 'make installkernel' and rebooting before doing a 'make installworld'?
>
> Rebooting?  I vaguely recall recommended procedure was to switch to single
> user mode prior to `installworld', but personally I've never bothered and
> installed kernel, [mm -p,] world, mm -Fi, reboot.  Am I missing something?
>

Old advice was to do the installworld in single user, as that's the safest
(and also ensures you have a new kernel and don't install before
rebooting). However, we've had enough experience to see that usually an
installworld + reboot is sufficient.

Warner


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