Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2000 09:49:42 -0600 From: "Hudson, Henrik H." <hhudson@eschelon.com> To: 'Murray' <mgd@brutus.converging.net> Cc: "'questions@freebsd.org'" <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: how to recovery an old kernel? Message-ID: <C1781C38F13DA040848FEFAD07311B1045977C@walleye.corp.fishnet.com>
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In my opinion, this is a BAD idea (using a kernel from a different system). Install the new system, then copy the kernel config file from /usr/src/sys/i386/conf on to your old machine. It's in the same spot. Edit the file and then recompile. Henrik --- Henrik Hudson -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Murray Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2000 19:55 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: how to recovery an old kernel? Hi, I just built a new 4.2 workstation and used a kernel from another system. The other system had a pentium ii, but the new system has a pentium iii. Therefore, in the old kernel the cpu was set as 586, not 686. Therefore, the new system does not boot, it hangs as it tries to determine the cpu. I initially copied the old system's kernel to the new system and then recompiled. I am guessing here but it seems that the only thing I need to do is change the cpu setting in my kernel and then recompile. If I could only rn kernel to kernel.bad and then rename kernel.old to kernel and then reboot and recompile correctly, everything would be ok. 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. -- Murray Davis Converging Technology Solutions Edmonton, AB To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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