From owner-freebsd-current Sat Mar 24 19:36: 8 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from chmls05.mediaone.net (chmls05.mediaone.net [24.147.1.143]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5CFE037B71A; Sat, 24 Mar 2001 19:36:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bloom@acm.org) Received: from acm.org (reyim.ne.mediaone.net [24.218.251.241]) by chmls05.mediaone.net (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f2P3a2x21116; Sat, 24 Mar 2001 22:36:02 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3ABD6799.B623F97B@acm.org> Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2001 22:35:53 -0500 From: Jim Bloom X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en]C-MOENE (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: The Hermit Hacker Cc: John Baldwin , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: panic: resource_list_alloc References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Try "make reinstall". I have been doing quite a bit of this since my kernel panics before it ever gets all the way up. The last good kernel I have is about a month old. Actually, I moved /boot/kernel.old to another name in case I accidentally did an install instead of a reinstall. I don't want to leave my machine unable to boot. Jim Bloom bloom@acm.org The Hermit Hacker wrote: > > doing so right now ... one quick/stupid question ... how does one > 'reinstall' a new kernel so that you don't lose the /boot/kernel.old (aka > backup that worked)? I've been moving files around before installing the > rebuilt kernel, but that doesn't sound very efficient ... :) > > thanks .. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message