Date: Sat, 16 May 2009 05:32:34 -0700 (PDT) From: Barney Cordoba <barney_cordoba@yahoo.com> To: "Paul B. Mahol" <onemda@gmail.com> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can't boot new kernel build Message-ID: <999978.10470.qm@web63907.mail.re1.yahoo.com>
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--- On Sat, 5/16/09, Paul B. Mahol <onemda@gmail.com> wrote:
> From: Paul B. Mahol <onemda@gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: Can't boot new kernel build
> To: "Barney Cordoba" <barney_cordoba@yahoo.com>
> Cc: current@freebsd.org
> Date: Saturday, May 16, 2009, 8:18 AM
> On 5/16/09, Barney Cordoba <barney_cordoba@yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> > I've built a new kernel and done a make install, and
> the system keeps
>
> # make installkernel KERNCONF=the_kernel
> KODIR=/boot/here_is_the_kernel
>
> > booting an old kernel. It "says" its booting
> /boot/kernel/kernel, but its
> > clearly not. No matter what I do, including deleting
> the old directory with
> > the old kernel, it boots the old kernel. Clearly its
> cached somewhere, but I
> > have no idea what's going on. What can cause this
> problem?
> > Barney
>
>
> --
> Paul
>
As it turns out, I have a 4 disk system, and the system was booting the
kernel off of a secondary disk and mounting a different one. So the kernel
I was installing on the mounted disk wasnt the one being booted.
Barney
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