Re: installing multiple kernels
From: Daniel Eischen (eischen_at_vigrid.com)
Date: 04/15/04
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Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 10:51:01 -0400 (EDT) To: Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des@des.no>
On Thu, 15 Apr 2004, [iso-8859-1] Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
> 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
I think it would be neat to install multiple KERNCONF kernels
to /boot/kernel/<kernelname> and only install one set of
modules.
> 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
> --
> Dag-Erling Smørgrav - des@des.no
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