Normally I don't put entries that should have been made months ago

into UPDATING.  However, in this case I'm making an exception.  I'm
adding a recommendation that people update their boot blocks.  Old
boot blocks will cause a system to become unbootable if you have
removed /dev/{,r}wd*.

Submitted by: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@freebsd.org>

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/UPDATING b/UPDATING
index 814578a..d1dbf8b 100644
--- a/UPDATING
+++ b/UPDATING
@@ -22,6 +22,13 @@ ITEMS:'
 	that you are loading are up to date.
 
 20000315:
+	If you are upgrading from an older version of FreeBSD, you
+	need to update your boot blocks as well.  'disklabel -B ad0'
+	will do the trick.  This isn't critical until you remove your
+	wd device entries in /dev, at which point your system will not
+	boot.
+
+20000315:
 	4.0 RELEASE shipped.  Please see the 4.0 UPDATING file for how
 	to upgrade to 4.0 from 3.x.