Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2002 09:35:35 -0600 From: "Jack L. Stone" <jackstone@sage-one.net> To: Jez Hancock <jez.hancock@munk.nu>, FreeBSD questions List <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Booting an alternate kernel Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.20021123093535.010ff368@mail.sage-one.net> In-Reply-To: <20021123150522.GA53763@users.munk.nu>
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At 03:05 PM 11.23.2002 +0000, Jez Hancock wrote: >Hi, > >I have fbsd 4.7 installed on a hdd in a dev machine which I want to transfer >to and from another machine. However the current machine is a K6-2 CPU and the target >machine is an AMD Athlon 1900+ - a generic kernel will not work >when I transfer the hdd between machines. > >I've just built a new kernel that will work in the Athlon and the kernel >that works ok in the K6 machine is now called /kernel.old. > >How can I make sure I don't accidentally overwrite /kernel.old (ie when >I rebuild the kernel again)? Ideally I'd like to rename kernel.old to >something like kernel.k6, but would I have to rename the /modules.old >dir too? > >Thanks in advance, > >Jez > You can just copy the kernel to kernel.k6. You don't need to delete the kernel.old..... Best regards, Jack L. Stone, Administrator SageOne Net http://www.sage-one.net jackstone@sage-one.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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