Re: Unable to use network early in boot with recent -current

From: Andre Guibert de Bruet <andy_at_siliconlandmark.com>
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 02:21:44 -0500
On Feb 22, 2007, at 2:29 AM, Scot Hetzel wrote:

> On 2/21/07, Skip Ford <skip.ford_at_verizon.net> wrote:
>> Kevin Oberman wrote:
>> > Any thought of making module loads default to the directory of the
>> > booted kernel (e.g. /boot/kernel.old) instead of /boot/kernel?
>>
>> This should already happen if you "set kernel" to kernel.old and
>> then "boot".
>
> I set the kernel variable in loader.conf, so that I can have multiple
> kernels installed and choose which kernel to boot the next time the
> server is booted.
>
> /boot/loader.conf
> #kernel="kernel_p4_debug"
> kernel="kernel_debug"
>
> hp010# sysctl -a | grep kernel
> kern.bootfile: /boot/kernel_debug/kernel
> kern.module_path: /boot/kernel_debug;/boot/modules

Just out of curiosity, have you come across nextboot(8)?

Andy

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