From owner-freebsd-stable Tue May 29 14:10:14 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from pan.ch.intel.com (chfdns01.ch.intel.com [143.182.246.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8938837B422 for ; Tue, 29 May 2001 14:10:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jreynold@sedona.ch.intel.com) Received: from sedona.intel.com (sedona.ch.intel.com [143.182.218.21]) by pan.ch.intel.com (8.9.1a+p1/8.9.1/d: relay.m4,v 1.39 2001/05/18 00:47:02 root Exp $) with ESMTP id VAA05445; Tue, 29 May 2001 21:10:09 GMT Received: from hip186.ch.intel.com (hip186.ch.intel.com [143.182.225.68]) by sedona.intel.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1/d: sendmail.cf,v 1.14 2001/01/02 18:39:59 steved Exp $) with ESMTP id OAA25878; Tue, 29 May 2001 14:10:09 -0700 (MST) X-Envelope-From: jreynold@sedona.ch.intel.com Received: (from jreynold@localhost) by hip186.ch.intel.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1/d: client.m4,v 1.3 1998/09/29 16:36:11 sedayao Exp sedayao $) id RAA07497; Tue, 29 May 2001 17:10:09 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: hip186.ch.intel.com: jreynold set sender to jreynold@sedona.ch.intel.com using -f From: John Reynolds~ MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15124.4144.735952.313946@hip186.ch.intel.com> Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 14:10:08 -0700 To: Mark Evenson Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Switching Back to kernel.old In-Reply-To: References: <20010529161506.49574.qmail@web11507.mail.yahoo.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.92 under Emacs 20.7.2 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [ 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