From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 19 15:36:01 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E3C9B16A4CE for ; Tue, 19 Apr 2005 15:36:01 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mh2.centtech.com (moat3.centtech.com [207.200.51.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4961A43D58 for ; Tue, 19 Apr 2005 15:36:01 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Received: from [10.177.171.220] (neutrino.centtech.com [10.177.171.220]) by mh2.centtech.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j3JFZxu3035588; Tue, 19 Apr 2005 10:35:59 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Message-ID: <42652533.8060106@centtech.com> Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 10:35:15 -0500 From: Eric Anderson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20050325 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Steve Ames References: <200504191530.j3JFUvWD030545@energistic.com> In-Reply-To: <200504191530.j3JFUvWD030545@energistic.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: kernel.old not used any longer? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 15:36:02 -0000 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 -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Sr. Systems Administrator Centaur Technology A lost ounce of gold may be found, a lost moment of time never. ------------------------------------------------------------------------