installing multiple kernels

From: Dag-Erling Smørgrav (des_at_des.no)
Date: 04/15/04

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Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 16:29:13 +0200

    Currently, Makefile.inc1 will only install a single kernel. If
    KERNCONF specifies multiple kernel configs, they are all built, but
    only the first one is installed. This makes sense since otherwise the
    last one installed would simply clobber all the other ones.

    The attached patch changes that. It modifies kern.pre.mk to install
    each kernel in /boot/<kernelname> instead of /boot/kernel. It also
    modifies Makefile.inc1 to build and install all kernel configs listed
    in KERNCONF. It also adds a script, sys/conf/regkernel.sh, which
    keeps a list of installed kernels in /boot/kernels, making sure that
    the last one installed is always listed last.

    The only missing element is to make the loader read /boot/kernels and
    have $kernel default to the last kernel listed there (i.e. the most
    recently installed) instead of "kernel". It would also be nice to
    offer a kernel selection menu for the CLI-impaired. Unfortunately,
    I'm afraid my forth skills aren't quite up to the task. Any takers?

    DES 

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Dag-Erling Smørgrav - des@des.no

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