Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2001 16:19:58 -0700 From: "Crist J. Clark" <cristjc@earthlink.net> To: "Gary W. Swearingen" <swear@blarg.net> Cc: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvsup Message-ID: <20011014161958.E309@blossom.cjclark.org> In-Reply-To: <6tzo6tnb66.o6t@localhost.localdomain>; from swear@blarg.net on Sun, Oct 14, 2001 at 02:50:41PM -0700 References: <15304.58886.215474.233433@guru.mired.org> <s6r8s6rhfy.8s6@localhost.localdomain> <15305.46606.130325.710925@guru.mired.org> <6tzo6tnb66.o6t@localhost.localdomain>
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On Sun, Oct 14, 2001 at 02:50:41PM -0700, Gary W. Swearingen wrote: > Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> writes: > > > The two build processes don't touch the the running system in any > > way. installkernel already saves the old kernel and modules as > > kernel.old and modules.old. > > Which reminds me of something else I wondered about. When I select an > old kernel from the boot prompt, shouldn't I do something to select > the old modules to go with it? It seems I'd have to use the "load" > boot command to load each and every module I need or will need, since > the old kernel doesn't know where to find the old modules. Or does it? > I don't recall reading about that. You can set the path to the modules at the boot prompt with the 'module_path' variable. -- Crist J. Clark | cjclark@alum.mit.edu | cjclark@jhu.edu http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/ | cjc@freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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