Add warning from Sheldon and others about stale modules

Add warning from markm about randomdev vs random change in loader

1 files changed, 20 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/UPDATING b/UPDATING
index dd52a65..b434da7 100644
--- a/UPDATING
+++ b/UPDATING
@@ -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