Re: Booting an alternative kernel from loader prompt fails the first time only

From: Manfred Antar <null_at_pozo.com>
Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2013 10:41:48 -0700
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

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