From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Dec 3 20:52: 6 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7050837B401 for ; Tue, 3 Dec 2002 20:52:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from rootlabs.com (root.org [67.118.192.226]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 34F1943E9C for ; Tue, 3 Dec 2002 20:52:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nate@rootlabs.com) Received: (qmail 8581 invoked by uid 1000); 4 Dec 2002 04:52:07 -0000 Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2002 20:52:07 -0800 (PST) From: Nate Lawson To: Rashim Gupta Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: booting multiple kernels In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 3 Dec 2002, Rashim Gupta wrote: > I have a machine to which I remotely log in and do > kernel programming. It has two kernel versions - one is WORKING and the > other is TEST - the one I am presently working on. Is it possible that > the bootloader tries to first load TEST but in case TEST panics then > it loads the WORKING version of kernel without user intervention ? My > initial guess would be to use loader scripts. Any suggestions? man 8 reboot, esp. -k option. -Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message