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Date:      Thu, 18 Mar 1999 05:09:14 -0800
From:      "Brian O'Shea" <boshea@ricochet.net>
To:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Help!!!  How to recover the kernel ?
Message-ID:  <19990318050914.C1075@localdomain>
In-Reply-To: <199903180948.LAA03221@ns10.nokia.com>; from Li ChunAn (Nokia/Beijing) on Thu, Mar 18, 1999 at 09:10:46AM %2B0200
References:  <199903180948.LAA03221@ns10.nokia.com>

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Hello Li.

This is probably a more appropriate question for the freebsd-questions,
but I realize the urgency.  The make install will move your previous
kernel to /kernel.old before installing the new kernel.  At the boot
prompt you can specify the old kernel like this:

boot: kernel.old

This will boot your previous kernel.  The boot prompt may look a little
different on FreeBSD 3.1.  If I recall, it displays a countdown of the
number of seconds that you have to interrupt the boot process.  Just
hit RETURN and at the prompt, type "kernel.old" like above.

Good luck.
-brian

On Thu, Mar 18, 1999 at 09:10:46AM +0200, Li ChunAn (Nokia/Beijing) wrote:
> Hello
> For my carelessness, I overwrote the kernel file in root directory when I
> compiled FreeBSD source codes by the command: make install. but I found this
> new kernel don't work properly. Would you tell me how recover the original
> kernel ?
> 
> Thank you!
> 
> Li ChunAn
> 
> chunan.li@nokia.com
> 
> 
> 
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