Rebooting After the Upgrade

Before you reboot, 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 answer “yes” to all these questions, 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 whether you agree with the kernel version:

# uname -a
FreeBSD stripes.example.com 6.0-RELEASE-p1 FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE-p1 #1: Wed Jan 4 21:39:53 PDT 2006 frank@example.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/CUSTOM i386

If it all checks out, congratulations! ...

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