From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Nov 23 13:21:55 2002 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 F341937B401 for ; Sat, 23 Nov 2002 13:21:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from fep2.cogeco.net (smtp.cogeco.net [216.221.81.25]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E00ED43EAA for ; Sat, 23 Nov 2002 13:21:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ph1@cogeco.ca) Received: from snoopy (d141-214-59.home.cgocable.net [24.141.214.59]) by fep2.cogeco.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF5AE5AD4 for ; Sat, 23 Nov 2002 16:22:14 -0500 (EST) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: david To: Subject: Re: Booting an alternate kernel Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2002 16:21:43 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.3 References: <3.0.5.32.20021123093535.010ff368@mail.sage-one.net> <3.0.5.32.20021123103949.010ff368@mail.sage-one.net> <20021123171159.GC1289@gothmog.gr> In-Reply-To: <20021123171159.GC1289@gothmog.gr> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <200211231621.43376.ph1@cogeco.ca> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Saturday 23 November 2002 12:11, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On 2002-11-23 10:39, "Jack L. Stone" wrote: > > Don't forget to keep track of your kernel config files. They should b= e > > symlinked to a directory separate from the "/usr/src/sys/i386/conf" j= ust > > in case you suddenly decide to delete your /usr/src and forget the > > kernel.conf is in there. > > HAH. Nice to see that others have used the same trick. You've > obviously been bitten by `rm -fr src' too! > > These days I have two custom kernel configs. One for my old Pentium 13= 3, > and one for the newer Celeron workstation. They both live outside of > /usr/src/sys/i386/conf :) > > keramida@gothmog:/usr/src/sys/i386/conf> ls -l | fgrep ' -> ' > lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel - 36 Nov 22 01:37 CELERON@ -> > /a/giorgos/local/freebsd/sys/CELERON lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel - 36= Nov > 19 01:37 OLDPC@ -> /a/giorgos/local/freebsd/sys/OLDPC Good idea..=20 > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message