From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jul 31 16:35:01 2004 Return-Path: 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 EAB6C16A4CF for ; Sat, 31 Jul 2004 16:35:01 +0000 (GMT) Received: from lorna.circlesquared.com (host217-45-219-85.in-addr.btopenworld.com [217.45.219.85]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 991D943D2F for ; Sat, 31 Jul 2004 16:34:56 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from peter@circlesquared.com) Received: from circlesquared.com (localhost.circlesquared.com [127.0.0.1]) i6VGYZx0061722; Sat, 31 Jul 2004 17:34:35 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from peter@circlesquared.com) Message-ID: <410BCA1B.7090205@circlesquared.com> Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2004 17:34:35 +0100 From: Peter Risdon User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040611 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Barbish3@adelphia.net References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: questions@freebsd.org cc: jbarnes@c3po.barnesos.net cc: Bill Moran cc: jonc@chen.org.nz Subject: Re: safe mode for kernel.old X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2004 16:35:02 -0000 JJB wrote: > -----Original Message----- > From: Bill Moran [mailto:wmoran@potentialtech.com] > > "JJB" wrote: > > >> >>In 5.x versions the whole kernel boot process was replaced with > > new > >>method and the auto rename of the kernel no longer happens on a >>recompile and there is no kernel.generic module available. > > > What are you talking about? I did a cvsup/make kernel process just > a > week ago on a 5.1 machine, and the 5.2 kernel refused to work with > the > network card. Lucky for me, kernel.old was in the boot directory, > and > I was able to move it back over kernel. > > Yes, the process and everything is different, but the basic fallback > device is still there. [format corrected] > You used the upgrade in place from source so the old kernel release > version was left over by error. Try doing an separate stand alone > kernel recompile and the kernel.old is not created. This problem is > more visible for people who install 5.x from scratch. > > Or maybe this is a difference between using the new buildkernal > process over the older kernel compile process. > > All I know for sure is I installed 5.2.1 from miniistall.iso install > CD and used the older kernel compile process to build a custom > kernel and the kernel.old module was not created and the > kernel.generic module was never there. > > So what I am saying is you may be trying to run the kernel.old > module from 5.1 and not the one you think you built from 5.2.1. > Out of interest I just checked three 5.2.1 machines all of which were installed as 5.x and the most recent installed as 5.2.1 a week or so ago, then cvsup'd and buildworld/kernel'd just once. All have kernel.old Peter.