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Date:      Thu, 12 May 2005 13:53:40 +0200
From:      des@des.no (=?iso-8859-1?q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?=)
To:        "Conrad J. Sabatier" <conrads@cox.net>
Cc:        =?iso-8859-1?q?S=F8ren_Schmidt?= <sos@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/dev/ata ata-queue.c
Message-ID:  <86wtq47j97.fsf@xps.des.no>
In-Reply-To: <20050511231001.1ba1e2e3@dolphin.local.net>
References:  <200505111436.j4BEaQWP077515@repoman.freebsd.org> <20050511145558.7e030a62@dolphin.local.net> <42828A49.8000008@DeepCore.dk> <20050511231001.1ba1e2e3@dolphin.local.net>

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"Conrad J. Sabatier" <conrads@cox.net> writes:
> Small problem: my last good kernel got overwritten.  Strange, but one
> "make installkernel" did *not* move /boot/kernel to /boot/kernel.old (I
> had previously manually moved /boot/kernel.old to /boot/kernel after
> discovering that the new kernel wasn't working properly, then the next
> installkernel failed to move it back to kernel.old, for some reason).

because your kern.bootfile still pointed at kernel.old.  the makefiles
only move kernel to kernel.old if it's the currently running kernel,
iirc.  you should always update kern.bootfile when you move or rename
your currently running kernel, both for this reason and to get the
module path right.

DES
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Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no



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