On 23-Apr-2003 Andrew Gallatin wrote: > > What's the official way to boot an alternate kernel these days? > > I upgraded the kernel sources and installed the resulting kernel and > *.ko in /boot/kernel.test/ > > I then booted, broke into the loader, and told it to load > /boot/kernel.test/kernel. When doing this, I expected that the module > path would get set so that /boot/kernel.test was first. Nope. > It auto-loaded /boot/kernel/acpi.ko. Then there was an > earth-shattering kaboom :-( > > Is there a way to boot an alternate kernel which sets the module path > for you? I usually do: OK boot kernel.test except I call them all /boot/smpng/kernel, /boot/proc/kernel and do OK boot smpng or OK boot proc -s -- John Baldwin <jhb_at_FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/Received on Wed Apr 23 2003 - 09:33:05 UTC
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