Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2002 12:50:04 -0700 (PDT) From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.ORG> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: kern/40926: After Upgrading or Clean Installing 4.6, reboot fails to load kernel/kernel.old, install creates kernel.GENERIC Message-ID: <200207231950.g6NJo45D039170@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR kern/40926; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Pete Rippe <stinsonalex@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kern/40926: After Upgrading or Clean Installing 4.6, reboot fails to load kernel/kernel.old, install creates kernel.GENERIC Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2002 22:41:14 +0300 On Tue, Jul 23, 2002 at 11:20:21AM -0700, Pete Rippe wrote: > > >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: > Do you have KERNEL=kernel.GENERIC set in /etc/make.conf? If not, how does your entrire /etc/make.conf look like? Cheers, -- Ruslan Ermilov Sysadmin and DBA, ru@sunbay.com Sunbay Software AG, ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer, +380.652.512.251 Simferopol, Ukraine http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve http://www.oracle.com Enabling The Information Age To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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