Category: Heads Up!

There’s been a number of people reporting various breakages during install or boot time. To weed out problems caused by old data right away, remember to:

rm -rf /usr/obj
make buildworld
make buildkernel
make installkernel
make installworld
mergemaster
reboot

Matt Dillon’s bringing in the ‘DragonFly’ name to replace ‘FreeBSD’ in the source, which may break a number of things over the next few days, including all ports.

James Frazer found, and David Rhodus corroborated, that NTFS support tain’t working.

As part of another discussion, it’s been noted that trying to boot FreeBSD 5.1 and DragonFly from the same disk currently may not work if it’s UFS1, and definitely won’t if it’s UFS2.

/bin/sh had a big introduced recently that would make it crash when booting with a new world. It’s been fixed, so recompile /bin/sh with updated sources when possible.