Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 18:12:37 +0200 From: Manolis Kiagias <sonicy@otenet.gr> To: Zbigniew Szalbot <zszalbot@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: old kernel's name Message-ID: <479DFEF5.5080308@otenet.gr> In-Reply-To: <94136a2c0801280804h6050dd47nb6205e486183f72a@mail.gmail.com> References: <94136a2c0801280804h6050dd47nb6205e486183f72a@mail.gmail.com>
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Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: > Dear all, > > While updating FreeBSD, my custom kernel file was autoamtically saved > (backed up) and system upgraded to 6.3. sysinstall showed me the name > of the custom kernel (something like kernel.prev or the like) but I > cannot remember now what it was. :( > > As there is no kernel in /boot I need to load the old one. But I don't > remember its name so cannot load it... > > Can you help? > > Thanks! > > Zbigniew Szalbot > > I don't know if I got this correctly, but are you trying to load your previous kernel from the boot loader prompt? In this case: unload --> No need if you have no kernel :) load /boot/kernel.old/kernel boot or (assumming you got GENERIC in boot): load /boot/GENERIC/kernel boot
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