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From: Leif Neland <leifn@neland.dk>
To: Vincent Poy <vince@venus.GAIANET.NET>
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Subject: Re: -current build fails 
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On Sat, 30 Oct 1999, Vincent Poy wrote:

> I was just worried
> that rebooting with a new kernel before a world build might actually
> render the system bootless.
> 

If you're worried, then just 
cp /usr/src/sys/compile/NAME/kernel /kernel.new
and reboot, using kernel.new

If it fails, you haven't disturbed the old, working /kernel.

Leif




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