Re: SASQ: Building and installing multiprocessor kernels

Justin Lindberg <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.openbsd.www
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 11/24/11 01:36, Theo de Raadt wrote:
>> Why does "make install" install the GENERIC.MP
>> kernel as "bsd" rather than "bsd.mp"?
> Since that is the file that the boot loader loads.
>
>> What is the simplest, most straightforward way
>> to install the multiprocessor kernel alongside
>> the single-processor kernel just as it would be
>> installed by a release?
> The installer does not do what you just suggested.  It installs
> the best kernel as /bsd.
>
>
... and if there is a single-processor kernel, it is
moved to "/bsd.sp", in case I still want to boot to it
for some perverse reason.

Somehow that escaped my notice all this time, perhaps
because I upgraded my processor _after_ installing
OpenBSD.
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