From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 28 2:33:19 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailhost.criterion.canon.co.uk (mailhost.criterion.canon.co.uk [194.223.249.254]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA86A14C4F for ; Wed, 28 Jul 1999 02:33:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from adamn@csl.com) Received: from csl.com (hermes.criterion.canon.co.uk [194.223.249.13]) by mailhost.criterion.canon.co.uk (8.8.8/8.7.3) with ESMTP id KAA11964; Wed, 28 Jul 1999 10:20:34 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <379ECA6C.412509AC@csl.com> Date: Wed, 28 Jul 1999 10:16:28 +0100 From: Adam Nealis Organization: Criterion Software, Ltd. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.0.34 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Eric Cholet Cc: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: renaming kernel References: <01BED8E5.5FB413A0.cholet@logilune.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Eric Cholet wrote: > > Hi, > > I have built a custom kernel for a FreeBSD 2.2.7-RELEASE system, but it > doesn't quite work. However kernel.GENERIC runs just fine. I will > eventually find out what the problem is with my custom configuration, but > in the meantime I need to make sure the system boots fine because I'm going > on vacation :-) Is it sufficient to just rename /kernel.GENERIC to /kernel > ? I'd be inclined to cp /kernel.GENERIC /kernel rather than rename it, as it's A Good Thing to have /kernel.GENERIC around at all times. You can, however, boot any kernel you like in / when you boot your machine from the boor prompt. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message