From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jul 25 14:21:40 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1AA841065678 for ; Sun, 25 Jul 2010 14:21:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from claudiu.vasadi@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ww0-f50.google.com (mail-ww0-f50.google.com [74.125.82.50]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE5868FC22 for ; Sun, 25 Jul 2010 14:21:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wwe15 with SMTP id 15so5748750wwe.31 for ; Sun, 25 Jul 2010 07:21:38 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:received:date:message-id :subject:from:to:content-type; bh=dZJBKqSsXQPaGs4hNDNwn1QORPnzHPK6Dp9Uu82SkjA=; b=oCCr3Z8CjmL344bYwejeh25LmHmMm58N+2U1Dzw/pQzY0YEV5W1RGCGcHe0DIxjZzH 1d7jd5kTSeTU328CEvXQ6/qiA+peNf263kSySjeNh1aNgeDkbEif7iCiZmq2cV3Iz+mz K2mFM6/asc7QxplxZnoV4+jsf1wt91IHMpy3c= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; b=E1jUdadp4aFGgVAZWzY0NeNT0bmGR8Ly9W+w0SVU4q6k8DMtNuD5QJlxh5GalgoUm7 OzMWDH0ADJdVpq5nj6MgxBRJ1H88oR+Cf1EEBuKJ2KygjveedRwzDTtbfhjXXHl7hVYt xriCy/Ry34vGdHilL8qsL7sSge/MZZ2faFNys= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.216.70.200 with SMTP id p50mr6100978wed.54.1280067698220; Sun, 25 Jul 2010 07:21:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.216.12.209 with HTTP; Sun, 25 Jul 2010 07:21:38 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2010 16:21:38 +0200 Message-ID: From: claudiu vasadi To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: how does freebsd know which kernel to boot ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2010 14:21:40 -0000 hello ppl, I was wondering about the following: After I do "make build|install kernel" and reboot, the new kernel is automatically booted but the old one is still on the disk. Therefore, how does FreeBSD know which one to boot ? I'm guessing it's writing this info somewhere but I do not know where or how. Can anyone give me some short description ?