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Subject: Re: kern/153804: boot from zfs kernel.old recovery
	undocumented/impossible
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on 26/05/2011 19:36 Andriy Gapon said the following:
> on 26/05/2011 19:20 Martin Simmons said the following:
>>  I think it should be
>>  
>>  http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/kernelconfig-trouble.html
>>  
>>  where it currently tells you to do unload and boot with arguments that don't
>>  work for zfs...
> 
> Oh, yes, thanks for the pointer - we should fix that.

I would change it like this:

Index: kernelconfig/chapter.sgml
===================================================================
RCS file:
/usr/devel/fcvs/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/kernelconfig/chapter.sgml,v
retrieving revision 1.196
diff -u -r1.196 chapter.sgml
--- kernelconfig/chapter.sgml	8 Mar 2011 17:46:12 -0000	1.196
+++ kernelconfig/chapter.sgml	26 May 2011 16:50:19 -0000
@@ -1494,10 +1494,8 @@
 	    the &os; boot loader. You can access this when the system
 	    boot menu appears.  Select the <quote>Escape to a loader
 	    prompt</quote> option, number six.  At the prompt, type
-	    <command>unload kernel</command>
-            and then type
-	    <command>boot /boot/<replaceable>kernel.old</replaceable>/kernel</command>,
-            or the filename of any other kernel that will boot properly.
+	    <command>boot <replaceable>kernel.old</replaceable></command>,
+            or the name of any other kernel that will boot properly.
             When reconfiguring a kernel, it is always a good idea to keep
             a kernel that is known to work on hand.</para>


-- 
Andriy Gapon