From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 23 07:26:25 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2D4516A400 for ; Fri, 23 Feb 2007 07:26:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from andy@siliconlandmark.com) Received: from lexi.siliconlandmark.com (lexi.siliconlandmark.com [209.69.98.4]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5682013C471 for ; Fri, 23 Feb 2007 07:26:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from andy@siliconlandmark.com) Received: from [10.0.1.5] (cpe-24-33-245-212.twmi.res.rr.com [24.33.245.212]) by lexi.siliconlandmark.com (8.13.8/8.13.3) with ESMTP id l1N7Lif5079069; Fri, 23 Feb 2007 02:21:45 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from andy@siliconlandmark.com) In-Reply-To: <790a9fff0702212329o19826332lf01676ae286e264a@mail.gmail.com> References: <790a9fff0702211031r226ba0bdsfab2eab5f4748191@mail.gmail.com> <20070221191551.19A9745053@ptavv.es.net> <20070221211039.GA859@heather.menantico.com> <790a9fff0702212329o19826332lf01676ae286e264a@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.3) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: <171CD081-E699-468F-A70F-E035C99DF3EF@siliconlandmark.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Andre Guibert de Bruet Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 02:21:44 -0500 To: Scot Hetzel X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.3) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.88.7/2631/Thu Feb 22 16:33:11 2007 on lexi.siliconlandmark.com X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-SL-MailScanner: Not scanned: please contact your Internet E-Mail Service Provider for details X-SL-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (not cached, score=0.033, required 6, AWL 0.59, BAYES_00 -2.60, RCVD_IN_SORBS_DUL 2.05, SPF_PASS -0.00) X-MailScanner-From: andy@siliconlandmark.com Cc: Eric Anderson , current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Unable to use network early in boot with recent -current X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 07:26:25 -0000 On Feb 22, 2007, at 2:29 AM, Scot Hetzel wrote: > On 2/21/07, Skip Ford wrote: >> Kevin Oberman wrote: >> > Any thought of making module loads default to the directory of the >> > booted kernel (e.g. /boot/kernel.old) instead of /boot/kernel? >> >> This should already happen if you "set kernel" to kernel.old and >> then "boot". > > I set the kernel variable in loader.conf, so that I can have multiple > kernels installed and choose which kernel to boot the next time the > server is booted. > > /boot/loader.conf > #kernel="kernel_p4_debug" > kernel="kernel_debug" > > hp010# sysctl -a | grep kernel > kern.bootfile: /boot/kernel_debug/kernel > kern.module_path: /boot/kernel_debug;/boot/modules Just out of curiosity, have you come across nextboot(8)? Andy /* Andre Guibert de Bruet * 6f43 6564 7020 656f 2e74 4220 7469 6a20 */ /* Code poet / Sysadmin * 636f 656b 2e79 5320 7379 6461 696d 2e6e */ /* GSM: +1 734 846 8758 * 5520 494e 2058 6c73 7565 6874 002e 0000 */ /* WWW: siliconlandmark.com * C/C++, Java, Perl, PHP, SQL, XHTML, XML */