From owner-cvs-src@FreeBSD.ORG Sun May 15 05:34:06 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: cvs-src@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4AE316A4CE; Sun, 15 May 2005 05:34:06 +0000 (GMT) Received: from aiolos.otenet.gr (aiolos.otenet.gr [195.170.0.23]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 83E9743D4C; Sun, 15 May 2005 05:34:04 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from gothmog.gr (patr530-a033.otenet.gr [212.205.215.33]) j4F5WGfH028189; Sun, 15 May 2005 08:32:17 +0300 Received: from gothmog.gr (gothmog [127.0.0.1]) by gothmog.gr (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j4F5XpeX034204; Sun, 15 May 2005 08:33:51 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (from giorgos@localhost) by gothmog.gr (8.13.3/8.13.3/Submit) id j4F5XnOp034197; Sun, 15 May 2005 08:33:49 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Date: Sun, 15 May 2005 08:33:49 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: "Conrad J. Sabatier" Message-ID: <20050515053349.GA32205@gothmog.gr> References: <200505111436.j4BEaQWP077515@repoman.freebsd.org> <20050511145558.7e030a62@dolphin.local.net> <42828A49.8000008@DeepCore.dk> <20050511231001.1ba1e2e3@dolphin.local.net> <86wtq47j97.fsf@xps.des.no> <20050512112617.482321e9@dolphin.local.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050512112617.482321e9@dolphin.local.net> cc: src-committers@freebsd.org cc: cvs-src@freebsd.org cc: cvs-all@freebsd.org cc: Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav cc: S?ren Schmidt cc: S?ren Schmidt Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/dev/ata ata-queue.c X-BeenThere: cvs-src@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: CVS commit messages for the src tree List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 15 May 2005 05:34:06 -0000 On 2005-05-12 11:26, "Conrad J. Sabatier" wrote: >On Thu, 12 May 2005 13:53:40 +0200, des@des.no (Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav) >wrote: >>"Conrad J. Sabatier" writes: >>> Small problem: my last good kernel got overwritten. Strange, but >>> one "make installkernel" did *not* move /boot/kernel to >>> /boot/kernel.old (I had previously manually moved /boot/kernel.old >>> to /boot/kernel after discovering that the new kernel wasn't working >>> properly, then the next installkernel failed to move it back to >>> kernel.old, for some reason). >> >> because your kern.bootfile still pointed at kernel.old. the makefiles >> only move kernel to kernel.old if it's the currently running kernel, >> iirc. you should always update kern.bootfile when you move or rename >> your currently running kernel, both for this reason and to get the >> module path right. > > A-ha! Thanks! I never knew that before. A probably "safer" way to keep known good kernels around is to copy them over to something that is neither kernel.old nor kernel. I usually keep a copy of a known good kernel in /boot/kernel.ok :-)