booting question

[Kevin Oberman]

> Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 06:53:36 -0500
> From: "J. W. Ballantine" <jwb at homer.att.com>
> Sender: owner-freebsd-stable at freebsd.org
> 
> 
> Hi
> 
> I got hit with the fatal trap problem in the prerelease kernel.
> 
> Li Xin suggested that I unload, load kernel.old and re-boot.  When I did that
> it hung during the boot process, just after the pci message.  I did
> get the system to re-boot using kernel.GENERIC, but was wondering why
> kernel.old hung since it was a bootable kernel.

Don't unload. Assuming that you use loader, let the system proceed to
the count-down and press any key except <ENTER>. Then enter the command:
boot kernel.old

If you want to boot with options, place them at the end. (E.g. "boot
kernel.old -s"

Otherwise you get into issues with module/kernel comparability.
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