On 12/14/2017 00:47, blubee blubeeme wrote: > When you boot into FreeBSD and you can select kernels, there's only 2 > options: > default and kernel.old > > Is there a way to have better output and support multiple kernels without > having to login to the system and running uname -v or something like that? > > Would it be possible to add options for more kernels from that boot menu? > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" >
The list is controlled by the /boot/loader.conf variable kernels= which defaults to "kernel kernel.old" I have a patch almost ready to land that will search all subdirectories of /boot for a file named 'kernel' and add the names of those directories to the list, such that the list will basically be autogenerated. It currently contains too much copy/pasted code, and I just need to clean it up a bit: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D11886 It was originally designed as part of my contributions towards packaged base, where pkg will keep the last N (default to 5 I think) kernel packages you have installed around, incase an upgrade goes bad. This feature will work on any filesystem supported by the loader. -- Allan Jude _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
