module path?

[John Baldwin]

On 23-Apr-2003 Andrew Gallatin wrote:
> 
> What's the official way to boot an alternate kernel these days?
> 
> I upgraded the kernel sources and installed the resulting kernel and
> *.ko in /boot/kernel.test/
> 
> I then booted, broke into the loader, and told it to load
> /boot/kernel.test/kernel.  When doing this, I expected that the module
> path would get set so that /boot/kernel.test was first.  Nope.
> It auto-loaded /boot/kernel/acpi.ko.  Then there was an
> earth-shattering kaboom :-(
> 
> Is there a way to boot an alternate kernel which sets the module path
> for you?

I usually do:

OK boot kernel.test

except I call them all /boot/smpng/kernel, /boot/proc/kernel and do

OK boot smpng

or

OK boot proc -s

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