Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 16:58:14 -0500 From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Cc: Scot Hetzel <swhetzel@gmail.com>, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Unable to use network early in boot with recent -current Message-ID: <200702261658.15805.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <790a9fff0702212329o19826332lf01676ae286e264a@mail.gmail.com> References: <790a9fff0702211031r226ba0bdsfab2eab5f4748191@mail.gmail.com> <20070221211039.GA859@heather.menantico.com> <790a9fff0702212329o19826332lf01676ae286e264a@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thursday 22 February 2007 02:29, Scot Hetzel wrote: > On 2/21/07, Skip Ford <skip.ford@verizon.net> wrote: > > Kevin Oberman wrote: > > > Any thought of making module loads default to the directory of the > > > booted kernel (e.g. /boot/kernel.old) instead of /boot/kernel? > > > > This should already happen if you "set kernel" to kernel.old and > > then "boot". > > > > I set the kernel variable in loader.conf, so that I can have multiple > kernels installed and choose which kernel to boot the next time the > server is booted. > > /boot/loader.conf > #kernel="kernel_p4_debug" > kernel="kernel_debug" > > hp010# sysctl -a | grep kernel > kern.bootfile: /boot/kernel_debug/kernel > kern.module_path: /boot/kernel_debug;/boot/modules You can also just do 'boot foo' at the loader prompt, and it is the same as doing: unload all set kernel=foo boot I use this all the time to boot test kernels. -- John Baldwin
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