From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 21 18: 2:51 2000 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 21 18:02:49 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BDA1E37B400 for ; Thu, 21 Dec 2000 18:02:49 -0800 (PST) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.10.0/8.10.0) id eBM22mj22877; Thu, 21 Dec 2000 18:02:48 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 18:02:48 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Murray Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: how to recovery an old kernel? Message-ID: <20001221180248.D19572@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <20001221185520.A46994@converging.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20001221185520.A46994@converging.net>; from mgd@brutus.converging.net on Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 06:55:20PM -0700 Sender: bright@fw.wintelcom.net Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Murray [001221 17:57] wrote: > Hi, > > How do you boot a bad kernel so that you could do the above? I tried > going into edit mode at the point where you can boot in 9 seconds... > or press any other key. However, I cannot accomplish anything here. unload kernel load kernel.old be careful not to load any modules, as it might cause weird stuff to happen. -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message