Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 14:10:08 -0700 From: John Reynolds~ <jreynold@sedona.ch.intel.com> To: Mark Evenson <evenson@panix.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Switching Back to kernel.old Message-ID: <15124.4144.735952.313946@hip186.ch.intel.com> In-Reply-To: <a0y9rfq2zo.fsf@panix6.panix.com> References: <20010529161506.49574.qmail@web11507.mail.yahoo.com> <a0y9rfq2zo.fsf@panix6.panix.com>
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[ On , May 29, Mark Evenson wrote: ] > > What works for me: > > 1) Select the BSD partition from the boot loader (hit the F[1-4] key) > > 2) when you see the "booting in 9 secs . . ." message, hit SPACE > > 3) type: > > ok unload > ok load /kernel.orig > ok boot > > and that should do it. I really haven't seen this well documented, but I > figured this out on my own one day so it is the recipe I use. > that will only select the kernel that is booted once. If you truly wanted to have a kernel named something other then /kernel (whether it be /kernel.old or /foobar) you have to edit /boot/loader.conf and place a: kernel="/whatever" line in there. -Jr -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= | John Reynolds WCCG, CCE, (space for rent, cheap!) | | Intel Corporation MS: CH6-210 Phone: 480-554-9092 pgr: 602-868-6512 | | jreynold@sedona.ch.intel.com http://www-aec.ch.intel.com/~jreynold/ | =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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