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Date:      Tue, 19 Apr 2005 10:35:15 -0500
From:      Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com>
To:        Steve Ames <steve@energistic.com>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: kernel.old not used any longer?
Message-ID:  <42652533.8060106@centtech.com>
In-Reply-To: <200504191530.j3JFUvWD030545@energistic.com>
References:  <200504191530.j3JFUvWD030545@energistic.com>

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Steve Ames wrote:
> I just noticed yesterday that there hasn't been an update to /boot/kernel.old
> since sometime in August. Yesterday was my first bad kernel on -CURRENT and
> I fell back to /boot/kernel.old/kernel and was suprised that it was that old.
> 
> When did 'make kernel' stop copying /boot/kernel to /boot/kernel.old? It still
> seems to have that behavior on 5.X. I checked UPDATING but didn't see anything
> on this behavior change. Nor could I find a knob in make.conf.
> 
> Is this user error somewhere?

Using 'make buildkernel ...' and 'make installkernel ...' does the kernel.old 
dance correctly.

Eric



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Eric Anderson        Sr. Systems Administrator        Centaur Technology
A lost ounce of gold may be found, a lost moment of time never.
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