Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2013 10:41:48 -0700 From: Manfred Antar <null@pozo.com> To: Rainer Hurling <rhurlin@gwdg.de>, Florian Smeets <flo@smeets.im> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Steven Hartland <killing@multiplay.co.uk> Subject: Re: Booting an alternative kernel from loader prompt fails the first time only Message-ID: <201304201741.r3KHfrJe001805@pozo.com> In-Reply-To: <5172CF44.1050309@gwdg.de> References: <625362A8116D4B43AF4912773F478CB9@multiplay.co.uk> <5172C699.8020708@smeets.im> <5172CF44.1050309@gwdg.de>
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At 10:24 AM 4/20/2013, Rainer Hurling wrote: >On 20.04.2013 18:47 (UTC+2), Florian Smeets wrote: >> On 20.04.13 18:05, Steven Hartland wrote: >>> When trying to boot an alternative kernel from the loader prompt >>> it fails the first time the command is run but succeeds the second >>> time. >>> >>> Type '?' for a list of commands, 'help' for more detailed help. >>> OK boot kernel.generic >>> Booting... >>> don't know how to load module '/boot/kernel.generic/kernel' >>> OK boot kernel.generic >>> Booting... >>> /boot/kernel.generic/kernel text=0xd21288 data=...... >>> >> >> Yes, I've been seeing the same thing for about 6-12 months maybe more. >> None of the people I asked were able to confirm, so I'm happy that I'm >> not imagining it :) > >I also can confirm this behaviour for month now (on 10.0-CURRENT amd64 >with clang). > >Rainer > >> >> I see this on serial as well as on the normal console in front of a PC. >> >> Florian >> Have you tried: OK boot /boot/kernel.generic/kernel Use full path name always works for me Manfred ======================== || null@pozo.com || || || ======================== -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
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