Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 11:26:17 -0500 From: "Conrad J. Sabatier" <conrads@cox.net> To: des@des.no (Dag-Erling =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?=) Cc: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?S?= =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=F8ren?= Schmidt <sos@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/dev/ata ata-queue.c Message-ID: <20050512112617.482321e9@dolphin.local.net> In-Reply-To: <86wtq47j97.fsf@xps.des.no> References: <200505111436.j4BEaQWP077515@repoman.freebsd.org> <20050511145558.7e030a62@dolphin.local.net> <42828A49.8000008@DeepCore.dk> <20050511231001.1ba1e2e3@dolphin.local.net> <86wtq47j97.fsf@xps.des.no>
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On Thu, 12 May 2005 13:53:40 +0200, des@des.no (Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav) wrote: > "Conrad J. Sabatier" <conrads@cox.net> writes: > > Small problem: my last good kernel got overwritten. Strange, but > > one "make installkernel" did *not* move /boot/kernel to > > /boot/kernel.old (I had previously manually moved /boot/kernel.old > > to /boot/kernel after discovering that the new kernel wasn't working > > properly, then the next installkernel failed to move it back to > > kernel.old, for some reason). >=20 > because your kern.bootfile still pointed at kernel.old. the makefiles > only move kernel to kernel.old if it's the currently running kernel, > iirc. you should always update kern.bootfile when you move or rename > your currently running kernel, both for this reason and to get the > module path right. A-ha! Thanks! I never knew that before. --=20 Conrad J. Sabatier <conrads@cox.net> -- "In Unix veritas"
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