From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Oct 2 10:30:17 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from revolution.3-cities.com (revolution.3-cities.com [204.203.224.155]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 25BE115082 for ; Sat, 2 Oct 1999 10:29:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kstewart@3-cities.com) Received: from 3-cities.com (kenn2202.bossig.com [208.26.242.202]) by revolution.3-cities.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA00727; Sat, 2 Oct 1999 10:29:40 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <37F6410B.C3F239EF@3-cities.com> Date: Sat, 02 Oct 1999 10:29:47 -0700 From: Kent Stewart Organization: BOSSig X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Arnout Boer Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Choose a kernel on boot.... References: <199910021550.RAA39822@tomcat.xs4all.nl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Arnout Boer wrote: > > Hi there, > > while reading through the different manpages for /boot and so on > I conclude that there is a way to choose one of the 'ready' > kernels on boot time.... > > It would be pretty usefull to me to have > the choice for > 1) a smp kernel for most of the things > 2) a sp kernel for StarOffice and maybe some > other strange stuff > 3) a 'backup > old kernel whenever a 'src' problem renders the other two unbootable... You already have this because "kernel.GENERIC" would be the GENERIC kernel. This would be "sp" and always bootable if the original system worked for you. The current file is called "kernel" and the previous is called 'kernel.old". Once you interrupt the boot, you can boot the kernel you want to use. Kent > > (This all on 3.3-stable.... ) > I can't figure it out through the manpages so > any help is appreciated! > > Thanks, > > Arnie > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kstewart@3-cities.com http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/index.html http://daily.daemonnews.org/ SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) @ Home http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message