Re: Upgrade order for armv7hf rpi

[maya%NetBSD.org@localhost]

On Mon, Oct 14, 2019 at 08:51:43PM +0000, maya%NetBSD.org@localhost wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 13, 2019 at 11:35:57PM +0100, Luis P. Mendes wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I have a Raspberry Pi 3 B+ running 9.0_BETA from August 18th, and
> > would like to upgrade the system.
> > sysupgrade returns an error, so I'm not using it.
> > 
> > What I've done so far was:
> > Copied the sets to some directory.
> > Opened via vnconfig the most recent installation image armv7.img.
> > 
> > What is the order to upgrade the system?
> > Is this one correct?
> > 1. Copy the /netbsd file from the image to the / over the old one.
> > 2. Copy all the files of the image's /boot the the /boot dir.
> 
> You need to reboot here. It's not guaranteed that an old kernel can run
> new binaries.
> 
> We make better guarantees on new kernels running old binaries :-)

Although, within a given release, we make really strong-ish guarantees.
if you were doing it in current, this is the process.
in -9, and updating to -9, you can probably be more careless.