Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2002 11:20:21 -0700 (PDT) From: Pete Rippe <stinsonalex@hotmail.com> To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: kern/40926: After Upgrading or Clean Installing 4.6, reboot fails to load kernel/kernel.old, install creates kernel.GENERIC Message-ID: <200207231820.g6NIKLt2011091@www.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 40926 >Category: kern >Synopsis: After Upgrading or Clean Installing 4.6, reboot fails to load kernel/kernel.old, install creates kernel.GENERIC >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: low >Responsible: freebsd-bugs >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Tue Jul 23 11:30:01 PDT 2002 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Pete Rippe >Release: 4.6-Release >Organization: Intrawork.com >Environment: FreeBSD wsip68-15-48-50.ri.ri.cox.net 4.6-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.6-RELEASE #0: Tue Jun 11 06:14:12 GMT 2002 murray@builder.freebsdmall.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/GENERIC i386 >Description: After updating from 4.5 to 4.6, and on fresh installs (tried a few different times), system runs fine till you reboot, then bootloader gives 'cannot load kernel or kernel.old', on further inspection, it is named as kernel.GENERIC >How-To-Repeat: i have no idea how to repeat it, except on my machine, just do a default install with only User distro selected. >Fix: renaming it back to 'kernel', or modifying /boot/defaults/loader.conf - from 'kernel="/kernel"' to 'kernel="/kernel.GENERIC"' seems to fix it >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted: To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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