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From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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Subject: Re: 1.1.5.1 Boot problem
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On Wed, 5 Feb 1997, Shawn Murphy wrote:

> On bootup, our 1.1.5.1 machine won't find its kernal.  It has a custom 
> kernel installed.  I was wondering... what would be the name of the backup 
> of the kernel from the original 1.1.5.1 install.

Yipe, 1.1.5.1?  This is before my entry into FreeBSD.  

Usually, you copy your old kernel to 'kernel.old', then copy the new one
into /.  In 2.x, 'make install' from the kernel directory does this for
you.

I don't know if the older boot blocks support this, but you can type '?'
and get a ls of the root directory.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major