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Date:      Tue, 18 Nov 1997 10:00:53 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        David Petrou <dpetrou@kinclaith.pdl.cs.cmu.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: [Q] Specifying kernel from boot console
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.971118100038.1445G-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199711180334.TAA12003@hub.freebsd.org>

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On Mon, 17 Nov 1997, David Petrou wrote:

> Hi.  I am doing some kernel hacking on a remote freebsd machine.  This
> machine has a serial console hooked up to another machine connected to
> the net.  I use the serial console to debug with DDB.  This setup
> works fine, but there are situations where my new kernel will crash
> before it's finished booting.  If I 'panic' or otherwise reboot the
> machine from DDB, the same bad kernel will boot up.  Is there a way to
> specify the kernel to use when booting from the serial console as you
> can with a boot option from the "real" console?

man nextboot


Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major





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