Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Mon, 28 Jan 2008 18:12:37 +0200
From:      Manolis Kiagias <sonicy@otenet.gr>
To:        Zbigniew Szalbot <zszalbot@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: old kernel's name
Message-ID:  <479DFEF5.5080308@otenet.gr>
In-Reply-To: <94136a2c0801280804h6050dd47nb6205e486183f72a@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <94136a2c0801280804h6050dd47nb6205e486183f72a@mail.gmail.com>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Zbigniew Szalbot wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> While updating FreeBSD, my custom kernel file was autoamtically saved
> (backed up) and system upgraded to 6.3. sysinstall  showed me the name
> of the custom kernel (something like kernel.prev or the like) but I
> cannot remember now what it was. :(
>
> As there is no kernel in /boot I need to load the old one. But I don't
> remember its name so cannot load it...
>
> Can you help?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Zbigniew Szalbot
>
>   
I don't know if I got this correctly, but are you trying to load your 
previous kernel from the boot loader prompt?

In this case:

unload --> No need if you have no kernel :)
load /boot/kernel.old/kernel
boot

or (assumming you got GENERIC in boot):

load /boot/GENERIC/kernel
boot



Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?479DFEF5.5080308>