On Thu, Dec 14, 2017 at 09:17:36AM -0800, bob prohaska wrote: > On Thu, Dec 14, 2017 at 01:47:13PM +0800, blubee blubeeme wrote: > > When you boot into FreeBSD and you can select kernels, there's only 2 > > options: > > default and kernel.old > > > > Is there a way to have better output and support multiple kernels without > > having to login to the system and running uname -v or something like that? > > > > Would it be possible to add options for more kernels from that boot menu? > > Unless I've been fooling myself, it's possible now. Just stop the boot > loader during loading by hitting the spacebar and type > boot kernelname > at the loader prompt > .... As Allan Jude pointed out earlier in the thread, it's a lot easier than that: just set the "kernels" variable in /boot/loader.conf. For example, I update, build, boot, and run FreeBSD on my laptop daily. That process installs /boot/kernel (after moving the previous one to /boot/kernel.old). I like to keep a "recent known-working" kernel around that isn't automagically replaced, so: g1-252(11.1-S)[1] grep kernel /boot/loader.conf # Experiment to see if kernel.save can be an option from the boot menu kernels="kernel kernel.old kernel.save" g1-252(11.1-S)[2] (And yes, it does work -- verified empirically.) Peace, david -- David H. Wolfskill david_at_catwhisker.org The US "cannot afford" Trump as President or Roy Moore in the Senate. See http://www.catwhisker.org/~david/publickey.gpg for my public key.
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