From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Oct 9 23:30:58 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 280A016A41F for ; Sun, 9 Oct 2005 23:30:58 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mark.r.cullen@gmail.com) Received: from qproxy.gmail.com (qproxy.gmail.com [72.14.204.199]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8187B43D48 for ; Sun, 9 Oct 2005 23:30:57 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mark.r.cullen@gmail.com) Received: by qproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id a39so989046qbd for ; Sun, 09 Oct 2005 16:30:56 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:x-accept-language:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=XN/1uVw5Q9J7saUhdyg8Um6zZHzQQFGrCm+tGzVjHF3qXT0vfckvF85uuejJ+dnidj8VUtZypoj3EzMwegsEDcf3TpYfoNViKapSpnA0aPpLXJ7IA7D5wT82bSbtpV+wu/rRdW64aP5qUP1ZQgyuHHYyAAdQh59r1uC4KtdRrU4= Received: by 10.65.105.10 with SMTP id h10mr2224474qbm; Sun, 09 Oct 2005 16:30:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?10.0.0.251? ( [88.96.18.86]) by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id f14sm2939111qba.2005.10.09.16.30.55; Sun, 09 Oct 2005 16:30:56 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4349A836.8010808@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2005 00:31:02 +0100 From: Mark Cullen User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Windows/20050923) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Micah References: <4349A5AD.4070903@ywave.com> In-Reply-To: <4349A5AD.4070903@ywave.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Sudheer Gupta Subject: Re: booting original kernel X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 09 Oct 2005 23:30:58 -0000 Micah wrote: > Siriphan Brigder wrote: > >> This page from the handbook will hopefully help you: >> >> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/kernelconfig-troub >> >> le.html >> >> Good luck! >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Sudheer Gupta >> Sent: 09 October 2005 22:51 >> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >> Subject: booting original kernel >> >> >> Hi >> >> I am using 4.1 BSD. >> Made few changes to the kernel and compiled it. When trying to reboot >> using >> the modified kernel, it throwed some page faults. >> So, i booted using the older config namely kernel.old. >> I again made few changes and recompiled the kernel with a new config. >> Now, trying to boot the kernel, it neither boots with the latest nor the >> older one. >> >> How do I boot with original configuration ?? >> >> Regards >> Sudheer > > > From the sounds of it, when you compiled your second kernel your > kernel.old (the original generic kernel) was overwritten by your broken > kernel leaving you with two broken kernels and no working kernels to > boot from. If that's what happened you either need to reinstall FreeBSD > or boot the install/rescue cd and try to copy the generic kernel from it. > > That handbook page has a lot of good information, but most of it is > preventative. The best suggestion is to always keep a working copy of > the kernel seperate from the kernel.old that FreeBSD makes for you. > > HTH > Micah > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > Isn't there also /kernel.GENERIC that gets installed?