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From: "Jason C. Wells" <jcw@highperformance.net>
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Subject: Re: Going back to generic kernel
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Zbigniew Szalbot wrote:
> Hi friends,
>
> I have a test machine with a custom kernel, which I copied (as the
> handbook suggests) to /root/kernels/. However, I do not really need
> it.
>
> My question is how do I switch back to the generic kernel? Many thanks
> and all the best to you all!
>
>   
/root/kernels is not booted by default.  I doubt this is the kernel that 
is running.

To run generic again, simply install the generic kernel much the same 
way you did the custon kernel.

cd /usr/src
make buildkernel KERNCONF=GENERIC
make installkernel KERNCONF=GENERIC

or set KERNCONF in /etc/make.conf

If you tweaked /boot/loader.conf to load something other than 
/boot/kernel/kernel then you'll need to untweak it.


Later,
Jason