Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 10:12:04 -0600 From: Scot Hetzel <swhetzel@gmail.com> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Failure on today's CVS (stable, AMD) Message-ID: <790a9fff050120081229a3ec6a@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20050119214229.GE1168@manor.msen.com> References: <20050119214229.GE1168@manor.msen.com>
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On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 16:42:29 -0500, Michael R. Wayne <freebsd@wayne47.com> wrote: > 2) More importantly, I recovered by loading /boot/kernel.old/kernel > and the box is up BUT I am concerned that the NEXT time that I > do "make installkernel" I'll stomp on kernel.old losing this fallback > procedure. I can certainly copy /boot/kernel.old to /boot/kernel.save > but is there something else I should save? Or is there another > suggested procedure? > When I have a bad kernel I do the following after booting the good kernel. cd /boot rm -rf kernel cp -rp kernel.old kernel cp -rp kernel.old kernel.good This way I can reboot the box without going into the loader to load kernel.old. Scot
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