Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2010 08:37:22 +0000 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: =?UTF-8?B?0JDQvdGC0L7QvSDQmtC70LXRgdGB?= <antoniok.spb@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Using multiply kernels with reserved GENERIC Message-ID: <4B9CA042.4000108@infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <3f1c29e71003140005u3d8dd7c8o474fd13b9cb1042b@mail.gmail.com> References: <3f1c29e71003140005u3d8dd7c8o474fd13b9cb1042b@mail.gmail.com>
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On 14/03/2010 08:05:37, Антон Клесс wrote:
> I compile my own kernel:
>
> # make buildkernel KERNCONF=MYKERN && make installkernel KERNCONF=MYKERN
>
> After this, the new kernel is into /boot/kernel , and old one is into
> /boot/kernel.old
>
> After first kernel rebuilding, kernel.old is GENERIC. But after second one
> it seems that I'm unable to boot GENERIC without compiling and installing it
> again.
>
> Is it possible to have GENERIC for system crash restoring purposes somewhere
> like /boot/kernel.generic ?
Yes. Just mv /boot/kernel.old /boot/kernel.generic
If you want to update your copy of the GENERIC kernel:
# cd /usr/src
# make buildkernel KERNCONF=GENERIC
# make installkernel KERNCONF=GENERIC KODIR=/boot/kernel.generic
Cheers,
Matthew
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