Re: Kernel Upgrade went wrong

[Brad <brad_(_at_)_comstyle_(_dot_)_com>]

The boot loader has no idea of IDE vs. SCSI. So that would be
"hd0a:/bsd.old" for the first hard drive.

// Brad

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>Date: 01 Mar 2002 03:59:48 +0100
>From: Saad Kadhi <bsdguy_(_at_)_docisland_(_dot_)_org>
>To: Kit Halsted <kit_(_at_)_kithalsted_(_dot_)_com>
>Cc: Selvam <selvam_(_at_)_bernama_(_dot_)_com>, misc_(_at_)_openbsd_(_dot_)_org
>Subject: Re: Kernel Upgrade went wrong
>
>On Fri, 2002-03-01 at 03:10, Kit Halsted wrote:
>> At 10:02 AM +0800 3/1/02, Selvam wrote:
>> >HI there,
>> >
>> >I did a anoncvs on my machine to rebuild the kernel and source
>> >but after downloading updated sources, I recompile the new kernel
>> >with the steps given and when I reboot the machine
>> >it went into debug mode where it ask me to do either trace or ps .
>> >I couldn't copy the output to include it here.
>> >
>> >How can I revert back to the old kernel ?
>>
>> Assuming you followed all the instructions, try this at the boot prompt:
>>
>> boot> boot -a
>> boot> boot wd0a/bsd.old
>s/wd0a/&:/
>
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