From owner-freebsd-current Sat Oct 30 15: 5:24 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from venus.GAIANET.NET (venus.GAIANET.NET [207.211.200.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 07E8B15186 for ; Sat, 30 Oct 1999 15:05:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from vince@venus.GAIANET.NET) Received: from localhost (vince@localhost) by venus.GAIANET.NET (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA02242; Sat, 30 Oct 1999 15:05:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from vince@venus.GAIANET.NET) Date: Sat, 30 Oct 1999 15:05:13 -0700 (PDT) From: Vincent Poy To: Leif Neland Cc: FreeBSD-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: -current build fails In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 30 Oct 1999, Leif Neland wrote: > On Sat, 30 Oct 1999, Vincent Poy wrote: > > > I was just worried > > that rebooting with a new kernel before a world build might actually > > render the system bootless. > > > > If you're worried, then just > cp /usr/src/sys/compile/NAME/kernel /kernel.new > and reboot, using kernel.new > > If it fails, you haven't disturbed the old, working /kernel. I guess it's not wise doing things when I'm half asleep or else I wouldn't even have posted the question in the first place... Cheers, Vince - vince@MCESTATE.COM - vince@GAIANET.NET ________ __ ____ Unix Networking Operations - FreeBSD-Real Unix for Free / / / / | / |[__ ] GaiaNet Corporation - M & C Estate / / / / | / | __] ] Beverly Hills, California USA 90210 / / / / / |/ / | __] ] HongKong Stars/Gravis UltraSound Mailing Lists Admin /_/_/_/_/|___/|_|[____] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message