From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 14 19:30:54 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com [24.2.89.207]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5556937BA02 for ; Tue, 14 Mar 2000 19:30:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id WAA57077; Tue, 14 Mar 2000 22:30:23 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from cjc) Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 22:30:23 -0500 From: "Crist J. Clark" To: Mourad Lakhdar <992C396651@stud.alakhawayn.ma> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: need help Message-ID: <20000314223023.A56931@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Reply-To: cjclark@home.com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: ; from 992C396651@stud.alakhawayn.ma on Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 01:10:11AM +0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 01:10:11AM +0000, Mourad Lakhdar wrote: > > hi everybody > > i did some modificatios in the code of the ip_input.c in , the problem is > that after loading this new version of the kernel i get a kernel that > keeps forwarding (may be in that initialization phase) whitout restarting > the system , so there is any suggestion to how reload the old version of > the kernel or at least get the system up , without having to reinstall the > freebsd, During boot, when you get to the prompt that says, Hit [Enter] to boot immediately, or any other key for command prompt. And the countdown starts, hit any other key (e.g. space-bar). At the prompt you first need to unload the kernel that has already loaded, > unload Then you can load the kernel of your choice that is on the root device. You can look at what is on the root device, > ls But if you want to boot the previous kernel, > boot kernel.old Is probably what you want. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message