Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2001 11:00:11 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Matthew Koivisto <mkoivist@nortelnetworks.com> Cc: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Multiple kernels Message-ID: <20010207110010.A29705@mollari.cthul.hu> In-Reply-To: <E1A4B2CC91EBD1118A510000F80836F803ECAB0C@zwdld002.ca.nortel.com>; from mkoivist@nortelnetworks.com on Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 01:32:07PM -0500 References: <E1A4B2CC91EBD1118A510000F80836F803ECAB0C@zwdld002.ca.nortel.com>
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--lrZ03NoBR/3+SXJZ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 01:32:07PM -0500, Matthew Koivisto wrote: > 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? You can do it - see the loader manual page - but running kernels with a different version than your userland code (even built from -STABLE sources checked out on different days) is not supported and will break things. Kris --lrZ03NoBR/3+SXJZ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE6gZs6Wry0BWjoQKURAk4BAJ9p+nXOHDEUu4SxeZ3iWCouj/3GxQCeJbBp zSxRvOpRZrCUenjcrMn0F6s= =EuU3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --lrZ03NoBR/3+SXJZ-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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