boot panic on current(04.20)

[Scot Hetzel]

On 4/21/09, Gustavo Perez Querol <gperez at entel.upc.edu> wrote:
>     I'm having the same problem with my laptop. It fails (if I remember
> well) when checkig an <O2 Micro> device (probably my card reader, don't
> know). When rebooting got to loader prompt, unload kernel and load
> /boot/kernel.old/kernel. This arrises a few questions :
>
>         1.- How can I install a custom kernel under a different directory
>             under /boot. I did it, but I can't find how (google doesn't
>             help)I did it. I think there's a define when installing the
>             kernel.

Add the following to your kernel's configuration file.

makeoptions     KODIR=/boot/${KERNEL}_debug

This when you install the kernel, in will place the kernel into
/boot/kernel_debug.

Scot