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Date:      Fri, 15 Jan 1999 20:52:16 -0800
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
To:        Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com>
Cc:        mrcpu@internetcds.com (Jaye Mathisen), current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Can the bootloader create a file or set a flag in the bootblocks? 
Message-ID:  <199901160452.UAA04642@dingo.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 15 Jan 1999 20:49:18 PST." <199901160449.UAA07916@bubba.whistle.com> 

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> Jaye Mathisen writes:
> > It would be kind of cool if when managing a remote system if /kernel
> > failed to boot, then on the next boot, the loader will fire up
> > /kernel.old, or a /kernel.somethingorother.
> > 
> > Sort of a kernel-clean flag.  Then 300 miles away, I can try stuff, and
> > have at least some assurance that I'll eventually be able to get back to a
> > kernel I could use.  
> 
> In case in that discussion it wasn't clear, there *is* a way
> to do this: see man nextboot.

Nextboot is woefully inadequate (and not supported anymore anyway).

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