On Sun Aug 14 11, Test Rat wrote: > Test Rat <ttse...@gmail.com> writes: > > > Eduardo Morras <nec...@retena.com> writes: > > > >> At 22:06 13/08/2011, Steven Hartland wrote: > >>>> i just had the following idea: how about instead of copying the > >>>> current kernel > >>>>to /boot/kernel.old and then installing the new one under /boot/kernel as > >>>>the > >>>> results of target installkernel, we create a unique directory name > >>>> for the old > >>>>kernel? > >>> > >>>The default size of / is likely your biggest problem. > >> > >> Don't know how much compresable is /boot/kernel.old but tar with -z > >> or -j may be a workaround. We can extract on demand and swap current > >> /boot/kernel with new /boot/kernel. Other way of do it is link > >> /boot/kernel to current kernel and update it, but i don't know > >> (again) if it would work in single user mode. > > > > There is kgzldr that lets you boot compressed kernels. Try > > > > $ gzip /boot/kernel/* > > $ reboot
the above works for me. just booted a compressed kernel. > > Nevermind, I've confused it with gzip support in loader, it also > has bzip2 support which for some reason doesn't work for me > > bzf_read: BZ2_bzDecompress returned -3 _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
