booting kernel.old uses /boot/modules, not modules.old

Matthew Dillon dillon at apollo.backplane.com
Tue Aug 31 09:23:58 PDT 2010


:
:Hi,
:When I enter into the boot prompt and run "boot kernel.old", i can see
:modules being loaded from /boot/modules, instead of /boot/modules.old. Its
:not very intuitive. Is this a bug?
:
:Petr

    It isn't really a bug, its just a lack of implementation in the
    loader.

    Hmm.  I've been wanting to go to a /boot/<directory>/{kernel + modules}
    setup for a while, I'm glad you brought this up.  I will mess around a
    bit today and see if I can implement the model I want.  It will be a
    nice break from the kernel work.

					-Matt
					Matthew Dillon 
					<dillon at backplane.com>





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