From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 7 10:36: 6 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from zcars04f.ca.nortel.com (zcars04f.nortelnetworks.com [47.129.242.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0EF1237B401 for ; Wed, 7 Feb 2001 10:35:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from zcard015.ca.nortel.com by zcars04f.ca.nortel.com; Wed, 7 Feb 2001 13:32:14 -0500 Received: by zcard015.ca.nortel.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id <1MM3G61B>; Wed, 7 Feb 2001 13:32:15 -0500 Message-ID: From: "Matthew Koivisto" To: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: Multiple kernels Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2001 13:32:07 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----_=_NextPart_001_01C09134.466D77C0" X-Orig: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. ------_=_NextPart_001_01C09134.466D77C0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Hi, I'm fairly new to freeBSD and I'm currently running a system with freeBSD 4.1 - RELEASE. I would like to upgrade to freeBSD 4.2 - RELEASE but I would also like to keep my old 4.1 kernel around. Is it possible to use the kernel boot loader to run different kernel versions like this? Or is the kernel boot loader just for loading kernels built with different options and not versions? Thnx, Matt Koivisto ------_=_NextPart_001_01C09134.466D77C0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Multiple kernels

Hi, I'm = fairly new to freeBSD and I'm currently running a system with freeBSD = 4.1 - RELEASE. I would like to upgrade to freeBSD 4.2 - RELEASE but I = would also like to keep my old 4.1 kernel around. Is it possible to use = the kernel boot loader to run different kernel versions like this? Or = is the kernel boot loader just for loading kernels built with different = options and not versions?

Thnx,

Matt = Koivisto

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