From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 14 16:12:46 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9390637B6A0 for ; Wed, 14 Feb 2001 16:12:42 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 91056 invoked by uid 100); 15 Feb 2001 00:12:41 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14987.7929.818397.468677@guru.mired.org> Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 18:12:41 -0600 To: "Andrey Simonenko" , Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: kernel.GENERIC Vs. kernel in / In-Reply-To: <6146543@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.89 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Andrey Simonenko types: > You can delete /kernel.GENERIC, but if you install new kernel and for the > same reson delete /kernel.old before new kernel checking and new kernel will > not work, you will have to find somewhere floppy disk with correct kernel to > bootstrap your system. It is better to have kernel.GENERIC and you should be > able to bootstrap your system with it, even if you install/deinstall some > hardware from your system,etc. Note that installing a kernel automatically moves /kernel to /kernel.old. So after you build one kernel and it fails, you'll have your old (good) kernel in /kernel.old, and a broken kernel in /kernel. If you then "fix" the kernel and make an install, you'll wind up with your broken kernel as /kernel.old, and your untested kernel as /kernel. If your fix didn't take, you're going to wish you'd left kernel.GENERIC around. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message