From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Nov 23 9:47:52 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8733837B404 for ; Sat, 23 Nov 2002 09:47:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from mailsrv.otenet.gr (mailsrv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7CFB43E91 for ; Sat, 23 Nov 2002 09:47:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from gothmog.gr (patr530-a209.otenet.gr [212.205.215.209]) by mailsrv.otenet.gr (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gANHliU6007042; Sat, 23 Nov 2002 19:47:45 +0200 (EET) Received: from gothmog.gr (gothmog [127.0.0.1]) by gothmog.gr (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gANHlT8u001761; Sat, 23 Nov 2002 19:47:39 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (from keramida@localhost) by gothmog.gr (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id gANHBxdx001644; Sat, 23 Nov 2002 19:11:59 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2002 19:11:59 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: "Jack L. Stone" Cc: Jez Hancock , FreeBSD questions List Subject: Re: Booting an alternate kernel Message-ID: <20021123171159.GC1289@gothmog.gr> References: <3.0.5.32.20021123093535.010ff368@mail.sage-one.net> <20021123150522.GA53763@users.munk.nu> <3.0.5.32.20021123093535.010ff368@mail.sage-one.net> <3.0.5.32.20021123103949.010ff368@mail.sage-one.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.20021123103949.010ff368@mail.sage-one.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 2002-11-23 10:39, "Jack L. Stone" wrote: > Don't forget to keep track of your kernel config files. They should be > symlinked to a directory separate from the "/usr/src/sys/i386/conf" just in > case you suddenly decide to delete your /usr/src and forget the kernel.conf > is in there. HAH. Nice to see that others have used the same trick. You've obviously been bitten by `rm -fr src' too! These days I have two custom kernel configs. One for my old Pentium 133, and one for the newer Celeron workstation. They both live outside of /usr/src/sys/i386/conf :) keramida@gothmog:/usr/src/sys/i386/conf> ls -l | fgrep ' -> ' lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel - 36 Nov 22 01:37 CELERON@ -> /a/giorgos/local/freebsd/sys/CELERON lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel - 36 Nov 19 01:37 OLDPC@ -> /a/giorgos/local/freebsd/sys/OLDPC To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message