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Date:      Mon, 6 Oct 2003 10:56:32 -0700
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Ewald Jenisch <a@jenisch.at>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Multiple kernels on one machine?
Message-ID:  <20031006175632.GA2777@rot13.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <3F815BED.1090000@jenisch.at>
References:  <3F815BED.1090000@jenisch.at>

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On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 02:11:25PM +0200, Ewald Jenisch wrote:

> In order to keep a working kernel: Is it possible to *keep* an old=20
> kernel by copying, say /boot/kernel.old to e.g. /boot/mykernel and then=
=20
> via the boot-menu starting this kernel by
>=20
> unload
> boot mykernel
>=20
> ??

Yep!  Not only is it possible, but it's a very good idea to keep a
known-good kernel around in a special place (e.g. /kernel.good) in
case something goes wrong with an upgrade and both of kernel and
kernel.old are unusable.

Kris

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