From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Mar 14 08:37:27 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8FB61106564A for ; Sun, 14 Mar 2010 08:37:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: from smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (gate6.infracaninophile.co.uk [IPv6:2001:8b0:151:1::1]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 01D768FC14 for ; Sun, 14 Mar 2010 08:37:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from seedling.black-earth.co.uk (seedling.black-earth.co.uk [81.187.76.163]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id o2E8bMjl040055 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Sun, 14 Mar 2010 08:37:22 GMT (envelope-from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) Message-ID: <4B9CA042.4000108@infracaninophile.co.uk> Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2010 08:37:22 +0000 From: Matthew Seaman Organization: Infracaninophile User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-GB; rv:1.9.1.8) Gecko/20100227 Thunderbird/3.0.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: =?UTF-8?B?0JDQvdGC0L7QvSDQmtC70LXRgdGB?= References: <3f1c29e71003140005u3d8dd7c8o474fd13b9cb1042b@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <3f1c29e71003140005u3d8dd7c8o474fd13b9cb1042b@mail.gmail.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.0.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.95.3 at happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_ADSP_ALL, SPF_FAIL autolearn=no version=3.3.0 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.0 (2010-01-18) on happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Using multiply kernels with reserved GENERIC X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2010 08:37:27 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 14/03/2010 08:05:37, Антон Клесс wrote: > I compile my own kernel: > > # make buildkernel KERNCONF=MYKERN && make installkernel KERNCONF=MYKERN > > After this, the new kernel is into /boot/kernel , and old one is into > /boot/kernel.old > > After first kernel rebuilding, kernel.old is GENERIC. But after second one > it seems that I'm unable to boot GENERIC without compiling and installing it > again. > > Is it possible to have GENERIC for system crash restoring purposes somewhere > like /boot/kernel.generic ? Yes. Just mv /boot/kernel.old /boot/kernel.generic If you want to update your copy of the GENERIC kernel: # cd /usr/src # make buildkernel KERNCONF=GENERIC # make installkernel KERNCONF=GENERIC KODIR=/boot/kernel.generic Cheers, Matthew - -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate Kent, CT11 9PW -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.14 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkucoEEACgkQ8Mjk52CukIzmwACfeTkSfNc/s86EkYvBABCWGRa5 VQAAmQFH2QQUnVOA16FJGFuoSHsgJ5+l =O0/G -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----