Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 10:51:01 -0400 (EDT) From: Daniel Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com> To: =?iso-8859-1?q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?= <des@des.no> Cc: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: installing multiple kernels Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.10.10404151043110.16408-100000@pcnet5.pcnet.com> In-Reply-To: <xzpfzb5qpqe.fsf@dwp.des.no>
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On Thu, 15 Apr 2004, [iso-8859-1] Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav wrote: > Currently, Makefile.inc1 will only install a single kernel. If > KERNCONF specifies multiple kernel configs, they are all built, but > only the first one is installed. This makes sense since otherwise the > last one installed would simply clobber all the other ones. >=20 > The attached patch changes that. It modifies kern.pre.mk to install > each kernel in /boot/<kernelname> instead of /boot/kernel. It also I think it would be neat to install multiple KERNCONF kernels to /boot/kernel/<kernelname> and only install one set of modules. > modifies Makefile.inc1 to build and install all kernel configs listed > in KERNCONF. It also adds a script, sys/conf/regkernel.sh, which > keeps a list of installed kernels in /boot/kernels, making sure that > the last one installed is always listed last. >=20 > The only missing element is to make the loader read /boot/kernels and > have $kernel default to the last kernel listed there (i.e. the most > recently installed) instead of "kernel". It would also be nice to > offer a kernel selection menu for the CLI-impaired. Unfortunately, > I'm afraid my forth skills aren't quite up to the task. Any takers? >=20 > DES > --=20 > Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no --=20 Dan Eischen
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