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Add warning from Sheldon and others about stale modules

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Add warning from markm about randomdev vs random change in loader
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Warner Losh 2000-09-11 05:59:00 +00:00
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Notes: svn2git 2020-12-20 02:59:44 +00:00 
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@ -5,6 +5,13 @@ directly to him. See end of file for further details. For commonly
done items, please see the end of the file. Search for 'COMMON
ITEMS:'
20000909:
The random device module has been renamed from randomdev.ko to
random.ko. You will need to edit your /boot/loader.conf to
reflect this if you load this module at boot time.
The line should read:
random_load="YES"
20000907:
The SMPNG commit has happened. It should work, but if it
doesn't, fallback to the PRE_SMPNG CVS tag.
@ -28,6 +35,19 @@ ITEMS:'
You *MUST* upgrade your boot loader and kernel at the same time.
Furthermore, you are urged to delete your old /modules directory
before booting the new kernel, since kldload will find stale
modules in that directory instead of finding them in the correct
path, /boot/kernel. The most common complaint that this cures
is that the linux module crashes your machine after the update.
if [ ! -d /boot/kernel.old ]; then
mv /modules.old /boot/kernel.old
chflags noschg /kernel.old
mv /kernel.old /boot/kernel.old/kernel.ko
chflags schg /boot/kernel.old/kernel.ko
fi
20000904:
A new issue with the sendmail upgrade has come to light.
/etc/aliases has moved to /etc/mail/aliases. Mergemaster will