request: LOADER_ZFS_SUPPORT

Miroslav Lachman 000.fbsd at quip.cz
Tue Nov 17 16:44:44 UTC 2009


Ivan Voras wrote:
> Miroslav Lachman wrote:

[...]

>> If we are talking about freebsd-update... It would be nice if
>> freebsd-update leave old kernel available in /boot/ as with source
>> upgrade (/boot/kernel.old) at least until second reboot (in case of
>> upgrade), because if new kernel failed to boot after first reboot,
>> then the machine become unbootable without some kind of LiveFS media.
>
> Are you sure it still doesn't do that? I think I saw a recent patch that
> leaves kernel.old somewhere...

It is nice if it is already patched! I didn't test it with latest 
releases of 8.0-RCx so I am not sure. I am creating kernel.old by hand 
copy ;)

Miroslav Lachman


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