booting original kernel

Mark Cullen mark.r.cullen at gmail.com
Sun Oct 9 16:30:58 PDT 2005


Micah wrote:
> Siriphan Brigder wrote:
> 
>> This page from the handbook will hopefully help you:
>>
>> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/kernelconfig-troub 
>>
>> le.html
>>
>> Good luck!
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
>> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Sudheer Gupta
>> Sent: 09 October 2005 22:51
>> To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
>> Subject: booting original kernel
>>
>>
>> Hi
>>
>> I am using 4.1 BSD.
>> Made few changes to the kernel and compiled it. When trying to reboot 
>> using
>> the modified kernel, it throwed some page faults.
>> So, i booted using the older config namely kernel.old.
>> I again made few changes and recompiled the kernel with a new config.
>> Now, trying to boot the kernel, it neither boots with the latest nor the
>> older one.
>>
>> How do I boot with original configuration ??
>>
>> Regards
>> Sudheer
> 
> 
>  From the sounds of it, when you compiled your second kernel your 
> kernel.old (the original generic kernel) was overwritten by your broken 
> kernel leaving you with two broken kernels and no working kernels to 
> boot from.  If that's what happened you either need to reinstall FreeBSD 
> or boot the install/rescue cd and try to copy the generic kernel from it.
> 
> That handbook page has a lot of good information, but most of it is 
> preventative.  The best suggestion is to always keep a working copy of 
> the kernel seperate from the kernel.old that FreeBSD makes for you.
> 
> HTH
> Micah
> _______________________________________________
> freebsd-questions at freebsd.org mailing list
> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions
> To unsubscribe, send any mail to 
> "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe at freebsd.org"
> 

Isn't there also /kernel.GENERIC that gets installed?


More information about the freebsd-questions mailing list