Re: install_and_reboot target for kernel's...

From: Garance A Drosihn (drosih_at_rpi.edu)
Date: 08/04/04

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    Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2004 15:05:38 -0400
To: John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@resnet.uoregon.edu>, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org

    At 11:23 AM -0700 8/4/04, John-Mark Gurney wrote:
    >I propose to add a install_and_reboot (if someone has a better name I'm
    >open to suggestions). It installs the kernel, and then using nextboot
    >will set to boot the freshly installed kernel, and then reboot the machine.
    >
    >I normally use it as:
    >make install_and_reboot KERNEL=kernel.test
    >
    >Patch follows:
    >Index: conf/kern.post.mk
    >===================================================================
    >RCS file: /usr/src/FreeBSD/src/sys/conf/kern.post.mk,v
    >retrieving revision 1.68
    >diff -u -r1.68 kern.post.mk
    >--- conf/kern.post.mk 27 Jun 2004 23:03:43 -0000 1.68
    >+++ conf/kern.post.mk 4 Aug 2004 17:14:55 -0000
    >@@ -29,6 +29,9 @@
    >
    > .ORDER: kernel-install modules-install
    >
    >+install_and_reboot: install
    >+ nextboot -k ${KERNEL} && shutdown -r now
    >+

    Hardly seems worth it. Create a script "iark":
         #!/bin/sh
         cd /usr/src && make installkernel KERNEL=$1 && nextboot -k
    ${KERNEL} && reboot

    (aside: I remember someone telling me that it makes more sense
    to just type 'reboot' than 'shutdown -r now'. If you do add
    the target, don't you want it to depend on "installkernel" and
    not "install"?)

    This way you end up with even less typing:
         iark kernel.test

    I'd actually spruce up the script a bit more than that, if it
    were me... Just my 2 cents. 

    -- 
Garance Alistair Drosehn            =   gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer           or  gad@freebsd.org
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute    or  drosih@rpi.edu
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