Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2007 13:37:35 -0500 From: Tim Daneliuk <tundra@tundraware.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Repopulating the GENERIC kernel Message-ID: <46800B6F.4010105@tundraware.com> In-Reply-To: <467FF636.6060708@gahr.ch> References: <467FEE86.5020601@tundraware.com> <467FF636.6060708@gahr.ch>
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Pietro Cerutti wrote: > Tim Daneliuk wrote: >> I have a production 6.2 STABLE machine w/something like this in /etc/make.conf: >> >> KERNCONF=MYKERN SMP GENERIC >> >> When I do a 'make kernel', as I understand it, all three kernels get *build* but only >> MYKERN actually gets installed. >> >> So ... how do I get the latest version of GENERIC (that I just compiled per the above) >> "installed" into /boot *without* it actually being the active kernel. IOW, I want >> my kernel build to *install* MYKERN as the active kernel and refresh GENERIC just in >> case I need it to recover a failed boot... > > try with > > make buildkernel > make installkernel KERNCONF=GENERIC INSTKERNNAME=GENERIC > make installkernel KERNCONF=SMP INSTKERNNAME=SMP > make installkernel KERNCONF=MYKERN INSTKERNNAME=MYKERN > > then set the name of the kernel that you want to boot off in > /boot/loader.conf, as > > kernel=MYKERN > > I don't know if there's an automatized way to perform the same... Well ... I guess I could avoid the last step with: make installkernel KERNCONF=MYKERN INSTKERNNAME=kernel ... since I believe the bootloader defaults to looking for a kernel called, um, "kernel" :) > > Hope this helps, > Yes - it helps greatly. Thanks!
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