safe mode for kernel.old

[Peter Risdon]

JJB wrote:

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bill Moran [mailto:wmoran at potentialtech.com]
> 
> "JJB" <Barbish3 at adelphia.net> wrote:
> 
> >>
>>In 5.x versions the whole kernel boot process was replaced with
> 
> new
> 
>>method and the auto rename of the kernel no longer happens on a
>>recompile and there is no kernel.generic module available.
> 
>  
> What are you talking about?  I did a cvsup/make kernel process just
> a
> week ago on a 5.1 machine, and the 5.2 kernel refused to work with
> the
> network card.  Lucky for me, kernel.old was in the boot directory,
> and
> I was able to move it back over kernel.
> 
> Yes, the process and everything is different, but the basic fallback
> device is still there.

[format corrected]

 > You used the upgrade in place from source so the old kernel release
 > version was left over by error. Try doing an separate stand alone
 > kernel recompile and the kernel.old is not created.  This problem is
 > more visible for people who install 5.x from scratch.
 >
 > Or maybe this is a difference between using the new buildkernal
 > process over the older kernel compile process.
 >
 > All I know for sure is I installed 5.2.1 from miniistall.iso install
 > CD and used the older kernel compile process to build a custom
 > kernel and the kernel.old module was not created and the
 > kernel.generic module was never there.
 >
 > So what I am saying is you may be trying to run the kernel.old
 > module from 5.1 and not the one you think you built from 5.2.1.
 >

Out of interest I just checked three 5.2.1 machines all of which were 
installed as 5.x and the most recent installed as 5.2.1 a week or so 
ago, then cvsup'd and buildworld/kernel'd just once.

All have kernel.old

Peter.