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| author | Warner Losh <imp@FreeBSD.org> | 2002-10-30 20:11:07 +0000 |
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| committer | Warner Losh <imp@FreeBSD.org> | 2002-10-30 20:11:07 +0000 |
| commit | bd79cf400b6d525c7b0615a16b7d4d47745e98c6 (patch) | |
| tree | 64362d4560c1122b353db61dd5b7ebe6ed55d5f2 | |
| parent | 58164331e334cbf3444c0755d79841c8a22a9b87 (diff) | |
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| -rw-r--r-- | UPDATING | 16 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 9 deletions
@@ -1094,15 +1094,13 @@ COMMON ITEMS: install) after the buildworld before this step if you last updated from current before 20020224 or from -stable before 20020408. - [6] 4.x boot blocks can be used to boot a 5.x system, however - it is difficult to do that at best. If you are concerned - about being able to boot 4.x if the reboot to single user - fails, then you should do something like - mv /boot /boot-4x - mkdir /boot - before this step. You may be able to then boot the 4.x boot - blocks if you catch boot2, and enter /boot-4x/loader rather than - /boot/loader. However, this step hasn't been torture tested. + [6] 4.x boot loader can be used to boot a 5.x system, however + it is difficult to do that at best. If you wish to try, then + you should interrupt the boot and at the ok prompt type: + ok unload + ok boot /boot/kernel/kernel + If this fails to work, you must install a new boot loader as + described here. [7] Before you upgrade, please make sure that you are not using compatibility slices. These are device names of the form, on i386 |
