linking a dir

Gary gv-list-freebsdquestions at mygirlfriday.info
Tue Sep 16 11:23:22 PDT 2003


Hello Mike,

Tuesday, September 16, 2003, 1:14:38 PM, you wrote:

>> How do I know which one is being loaded, can't seem to find it in dmesg.

MM> I think it's safe to assume that you're not booting kernel.GENERIC.  You can
MM> specify other kernels at boot time, but if you're not doing that, you can
MM> safely delete kernel.GENERIC.

Okay..

MM> Some like having a generic kernel around in case of an emergency, a
MM> newly built kernel doesn't work correctly or for troubleshooting
MM> purposes.

good idea..

MM> Have you built a new kernel or upgraded the entire system? What's the
MM> output of uname -v?

no, haven't touched it, as it worked well "out of the box."  Use it
strictly for mail/IMAPS/DNS server.

FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE #0: Thu Apr 3 10:53:38 GMT 2003
root at freebsd-stable.sentex.ca:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC


-- 
Best regards,
 Gary 



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