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:

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

If it all checks out, congratulations! You've just completed a make world. You can now rest easyat least until the next time you decide to do it.