Date: Tue, 09 May 2017 08:50:58 +0000 From: "Thomas Mueller" <mueller6722@twc.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to identify FreeBSD version on a different partition? Message-ID: <FE.0E.29375.D3381195@dnvrco-omsmta02> References: <55.A0.29375.E7010195@dnvrco-omsmta02> <CALeGphyTTA4_m4-oEizEPYncNdfQdVR2rUv=PkgNhv_4Tmsouw@mail.gmail.com>
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> I can get my current booted system with
> % strings /boot/kernel/kernel|tail
> __page_fault.read
> __page_fault.write
> amd64
> @(#)FreeBSD 11.0-STABLE #0 r317545: Thu Apr 27 23:54:19 PDT 2017
> FreeBSD 11.0-STABLE #0 r317545: Thu Apr 27 23:54:19 PDT 2017
> jack@upstairs.jack.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/UPSTAIRS
> FreeBSD clang version 4.0.0 (tags/RELEASE_400/final 297347) (based on
> LLVM 4.0.0)
> FreeBSD
> 11.0-STABLE
> UPSTAIRS
Thanks to Jack L., and Matthew Seaman too, that works.
It was non-obvious, I wouldn't have thought of it.
It works not only from active installation but from any OS installation that can read the FreeBSD partition.
I even tried it on a NetBSD kernel, but that did not show the version.
Tom
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