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On 20.04.2013 18:47 (UTC+2), Florian Smeets wrote:
> On 20.04.13 18:05, Steven Hartland wrote:
>> When trying to boot an alternative kernel from the loader prompt
>> it fails the first time the command is run but succeeds the second
>> time.
>>
>> Type '?' for a list of commands, 'help' for more detailed help.
>> OK boot kernel.generic
>> Booting...
>> don't know how to load module '/boot/kernel.generic/kernel'
>> OK boot kernel.generic
>> Booting...
>> /boot/kernel.generic/kernel text=0xd21288 data=......
>>
> 
> Yes, I've been seeing the same thing for about 6-12 months maybe more.
> None of the people I asked were able to confirm, so I'm happy that I'm
> not imagining it :)

I also can confirm this behaviour for month now (on 10.0-CURRENT amd64
with clang).

Rainer

> 
> I see this on serial as well as on the normal console in front of a PC.
> 
> Florian
>