Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 14:32:19 -0400 From: "James E. Housley" <jeh@FreeBSD.org> To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?= <des@des.no> Cc: arch@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: installing multiple kernels Message-ID: <407ED533.5020102@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <xzpfzb5qpqe.fsf@dwp.des.no> References: <xzpfzb5qpqe.fsf@dwp.des.no>
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Dag-Erling Smørgrav 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. > > The attached patch changes that. It modifies kern.pre.mk to install > each kernel in /boot/<kernelname> instead of /boot/kernel. It also > 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. > > 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? > But isn't changing to use the last kernel instead of the first kernel a violation of POLA? Other then that this sounds great. Jim -- /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign . \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail . X - NO Word docs in e-mail . / \ ----------------------------------------------------------------- jeh@FreeBSD.org http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power to Serve jim@TheHousleys.Net http://www.TheHousleys.net --------------------------------------------------------------------- Life begins at 4.0
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