Subject: Re: Placement for kernels
To: NetBSD Users list <netbsd-users@netbsd.org>
From: Julio Merino <juli@merino.net>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 02/06/2002 22:37:03
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On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 06:33:39PM +0100, Michael Kukat wrote:
> Hi !
>=20
> On Wed, 6 Feb 2002, Andrew Gillham wrote:
> > Not to sound facetious, but can't you just use: "cp netbsd /netbsd.stab=
le"
> > or whatever?  After all you will need to type "boot netbsd.stable" to g=
et
> > the boot loader to run your test kernel.
> > For testing / development you probably don't want the "make install" ta=
rget
> > anyway.  Well, at least I have never done it. :)
>=20
> I also never use make install. I usually have a /netbsd.GENERIC on most
> machines, if tuning kernel, maybe a /netbsd.old, and a /netbsd, which is =
the
> current production kernel.
>=20
> you could play around with the partitions, make your boot partition mount=
ed
> to /kernels and relocate the root partition to "d" or so. but then you ha=
ve to
> use the "netbsd on <blah>" in your kernel config. i did something similar=
 with
> root-FS on RAIDframe a while ago, but i don't know the exact steps i took=
 then.

The question is... how to specify the default kernel to boot in the
bootloader, directory, name, etc.

Thanks.

>=20
> ...Michael
>=20
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Julio Merino (Slink) <juli@merino.net>

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