Tim Daneliuk wrote: > Pietro Cerutti wrote: >> Tim Daneliuk wrote: >>> I have a production 6.2 STABLE machine w/something like this in >>> /etc/make.conf: >>> >>> KERNCONF=MYKERN SMP GENERIC >>> >>> When I do a 'make kernel', as I understand it, all three kernels get >>> *build* but only >>> MYKERN actually gets installed. >>> >>> So ... how do I get the latest version of GENERIC (that I just compiled per >>> the above) >>> "installed" into /boot *without* it actually being the active kernel. IOW, >>> I want >>> my kernel build to *install* MYKERN as the active kernel and refresh >>> GENERIC just in >>> case I need it to recover a failed boot... >> try with >> >> make buildkernel >> make installkernel KERNCONF=GENERIC INSTKERNNAME=GENERIC >> make installkernel KERNCONF=SMP INSTKERNNAME=SMP >> make installkernel KERNCONF=MYKERN INSTKERNNAME=MYKERN >> >> then set the name of the kernel that you want to boot off in >> /boot/loader.conf, as >> >> kernel=MYKERN >> >> I don't know if there's an automatized way to perform the same... > > Well ... I guess I could avoid the last step with: > > make installkernel KERNCONF=MYKERN INSTKERNNAME=kernel > > ... since I believe the bootloader defaults to looking for a kernel called, > um, "kernel" :)
Not only, you can avoid INSTKERNNAME=kernel if what you want is a kernel called "kernel". the kernel defaults to "kernel" as for in /boot/defaults/loader.conf > >> Hope this helps, >> > > Yes - it helps greatly. Thanks! Regards, -- Pietro Cerutti PGP Public Key: http://gahr.ch/pgp
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