From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 14 16:20:27 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from avocet.mail.pas.earthlink.net (avocet.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.121.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 19B4737B408 for ; Sun, 14 Oct 2001 16:20:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dialup-209.247.143.60.dial1.sanjose1.level3.net ([209.247.143.60] helo=blossom.cjclark.org) by avocet.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 15suYR-0002cM-00; Sun, 14 Oct 2001 16:20:23 -0700 Received: (from cjc@localhost) by blossom.cjclark.org (8.11.6/8.11.3) id f9ENJwj01068; Sun, 14 Oct 2001 16:19:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cjc) Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2001 16:19:58 -0700 From: "Crist J. Clark" To: "Gary W. Swearingen" Cc: Mike Meyer , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvsup Message-ID: <20011014161958.E309@blossom.cjclark.org> Reply-To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu References: <15304.58886.215474.233433@guru.mired.org> <15305.46606.130325.710925@guru.mired.org> <6tzo6tnb66.o6t@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <6tzo6tnb66.o6t@localhost.localdomain>; from swear@blarg.net on Sun, Oct 14, 2001 at 02:50:41PM -0700 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 Sun, Oct 14, 2001 at 02:50:41PM -0700, Gary W. Swearingen wrote: > Mike Meyer writes: > > > The two build processes don't touch the the running system in any > > way. installkernel already saves the old kernel and modules as > > kernel.old and modules.old. > > Which reminds me of something else I wondered about. When I select an > old kernel from the boot prompt, shouldn't I do something to select > the old modules to go with it? It seems I'd have to use the "load" > boot command to load each and every module I need or will need, since > the old kernel doesn't know where to find the old modules. Or does it? > I don't recall reading about that. You can set the path to the modules at the boot prompt with the 'module_path' variable. -- Crist J. Clark | cjclark@alum.mit.edu | cjclark@jhu.edu http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/ | cjc@freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message