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Subject: Re: old kernel's name
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Zbigniew Szalbot wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> While updating FreeBSD, my custom kernel file was autoamtically saved
> (backed up) and system upgraded to 6.3. sysinstall  showed me the name
> of the custom kernel (something like kernel.prev or the like) but I
> cannot remember now what it was. :(
>
> As there is no kernel in /boot I need to load the old one. But I don't
> remember its name so cannot load it...
>
> Can you help?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Zbigniew Szalbot
>
>   
I don't know if I got this correctly, but are you trying to load your 
previous kernel from the boot loader prompt?

In this case:

unload --> No need if you have no kernel :)
load /boot/kernel.old/kernel
boot

or (assumming you got GENERIC in boot):

load /boot/GENERIC/kernel
boot