Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2005 00:46:23 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: fbsd_user <fbsd_user@a1poweruser.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to boot kernel.old version in 5.4 Message-ID: <20050609214623.GA77437@orion.daedalusnetworks.priv> In-Reply-To: <MIEPLLIBMLEEABPDBIEGMEIJHGAA.fbsd_user@a1poweruser.com> References: <MIEPLLIBMLEEABPDBIEGMEIJHGAA.fbsd_user@a1poweruser.com>
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On 2005-06-09 17:40, fbsd_user <fbsd_user@a1poweruser.com> wrote: > In 5.4 after compiling a new kernel you have the default boot location being > /boot/kernel/ directory containing the current newly compiled kernel and > /boot/kernel.old/ directory containing the generic system. > > For safeguard I do > mkdir /boot/kernel.generic > cp -Rfv /boot/kernel.old/ /boot/kernel.generic/ > > Now my question, > At the beastie boot menu I select option 6 for boot prompt, > What do I enter to load from /boot/kernel.generic/ directory?? If I remember all the commands correctly (since it's been a while now), you can use either: unload set bootfile=/boot/kernel.old/kernel set module_path=/boot/kernel.old load kernel boot or the simpler: boot kernel.old
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