Rebooting After the Upgrade

Make a mental checklist:

  • Have I synchronized to the latest sources?

  • Have I done a buildworld?

  • Did I compile a new kernel?

  • Did the new kernel boot?

  • Have I done an installworld?

  • Do utilities such as ps and top work?

  • Is /etc merged to my satisfaction?

If you can say “yes” to all of these, you're ready to reboot.

# reboot

When the system comes back up into multiuser mode, check ps and top again just to make sure everything's synchronized. Finally, run uname -a to see if you agree with the kernel version:

# uname -a
FreeBSD stripes.somewhere.com 4.3-STABLE FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE #0: Wed Jan 31 18:45:43 PST
 2001 frank@somewhere.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/CUSTOM ...

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