Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 05:11:58 -0500 From: Andre Guibert de Bruet <andy@siliconlandmark.com> To: "Scot Hetzel" <swhetzel@gmail.com> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Unable to use network early in boot with recent -current Message-ID: <6BA4DF14-24D7-4E15-82C0-D41F839080D0@siliconlandmark.com> In-Reply-To: <790a9fff0702230050p58c65c2cwffa1236b909ebb4a@mail.gmail.com> References: <790a9fff0702211031r226ba0bdsfab2eab5f4748191@mail.gmail.com> <20070221191551.19A9745053@ptavv.es.net> <20070221211039.GA859@heather.menantico.com> <790a9fff0702212329o19826332lf01676ae286e264a@mail.gmail.com> <171CD081-E699-468F-A70F-E035C99DF3EF@siliconlandmark.com> <790a9fff0702230050p58c65c2cwffa1236b909ebb4a@mail.gmail.com>
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On Feb 23, 2007, at 3:50 AM, Scot Hetzel wrote: > On 2/23/07, Andre Guibert de Bruet <andy@siliconlandmark.com> wrote: >> Just out of curiosity, have you come across nextboot(8)? >> > Just read the man page, and I can't use it due to how I boot my > system. > > Since, nextboot only allows the specified kernel to be used > temporarily, When the system is booted for the 3rd time it would be > back to the original kernel. I usually want to use the same kernel on > the next boot. > > If I want to use a different kernel I specify it in loader.conf. > > I set it up this way so that I could run 4 Linux Test Project (LTP) > tests. These runs consists of: > > 2 runs on /boot/kernel_debug (linux version set to 2.4.2, and > 2.6.16) > 2 runs on /boot/kernel_p4_debug (linux version set to 2.4.2, and > 2.6.16) > > These runs are used to test the status of the linuxolator on > FreeBSD/amd64. Gotcha. One thing that it lets you easily do is boot in single-user mode upon reboot (Using -o "-s") without having to babysit the machine. I use it to test throw-away kernels with untested changes, in a VM. Andy /* Andre Guibert de Bruet * 6f43 6564 7020 656f 2e74 4220 7469 6a20 */ /* Code poet / Sysadmin * 636f 656b 2e79 5320 7379 6461 696d 2e6e */ /* GSM: +1 734 846 8758 * 5520 494e 2058 6c73 7565 6874 002e 0000 */ /* WWW: siliconlandmark.com * C/C++, Java, Perl, PHP, SQL, XHTML, XML */
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