How to keep freebsd-update from trashing custom kernel?

[Brett Glass]

At 12:59 PM 8/13/2012, Polytropon wrote:

>I've never seen a system having a /boot/GENERIC directory
>containing the GENERIC kernel.

It does not come that way. The Handbook recommends that one
manuall copy the original kernel from the distribution into
/boot/GENERIC before building a custom kernel, for use in
emergencies and during version upgrades.

--Brett Glass