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Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2002 09:35:35 -0600
To: Jez Hancock <jez.hancock@munk.nu>,
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From: "Jack L. Stone" <jackstone@sage-one.net>
Subject: Re: Booting an alternate kernel
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At 03:05 PM 11.23.2002 +0000, Jez Hancock wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I have fbsd 4.7 installed on a hdd in a dev machine which I want to transfer
>to and from another machine.  However the current machine is a K6-2 CPU
and the target
>machine is an AMD Athlon 1900+ - a generic kernel will not work
>when I transfer the hdd between machines.
>
>I've just built a new kernel that will work in the Athlon and the kernel
>that works ok in the K6 machine is now called /kernel.old.
>
>How can I make sure I don't accidentally overwrite /kernel.old (ie when
>I rebuild the kernel again)?  Ideally I'd like to rename kernel.old to
>something like kernel.k6, but would I have to rename the /modules.old
>dir too?
>
>Thanks in advance,
>
>Jez
>

You can just copy the kernel to kernel.k6. You don't need to delete the
kernel.old.....

Best regards,
Jack L. Stone,
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SageOne Net
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