Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 10:35:15 -0500 From: Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com> To: Steve Ames <steve@energistic.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: kernel.old not used any longer? Message-ID: <42652533.8060106@centtech.com> In-Reply-To: <200504191530.j3JFUvWD030545@energistic.com> References: <200504191530.j3JFUvWD030545@energistic.com>
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Steve Ames wrote: > I just noticed yesterday that there hasn't been an update to /boot/kernel.old > since sometime in August. Yesterday was my first bad kernel on -CURRENT and > I fell back to /boot/kernel.old/kernel and was suprised that it was that old. > > When did 'make kernel' stop copying /boot/kernel to /boot/kernel.old? It still > seems to have that behavior on 5.X. I checked UPDATING but didn't see anything > on this behavior change. Nor could I find a knob in make.conf. > > Is this user error somewhere? Using 'make buildkernel ...' and 'make installkernel ...' does the kernel.old dance correctly. Eric -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Sr. Systems Administrator Centaur Technology A lost ounce of gold may be found, a lost moment of time never. ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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