From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 18 10:01:09 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id KAA09824 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 18 Nov 1997 10:01:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id KAA09812 for ; Tue, 18 Nov 1997 10:01:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id KAA01481; Tue, 18 Nov 1997 10:00:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Tue, 18 Nov 1997 10:00:53 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: David Petrou cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [Q] Specifying kernel from boot console In-Reply-To: <199711180334.TAA12003@hub.freebsd.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 17 Nov 1997, David Petrou wrote: > Hi. I am doing some kernel hacking on a remote freebsd machine. This > machine has a serial console hooked up to another machine connected to > the net. I use the serial console to debug with DDB. This setup > works fine, but there are situations where my new kernel will crash > before it's finished booting. If I 'panic' or otherwise reboot the > machine from DDB, the same bad kernel will boot up. Is there a way to > specify the kernel to use when booting from the serial console as you > can with a boot option from the "real" console? man nextboot Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major