Should be fixed.
> Savecore isn't working in -current, dying in my case with "read:
> invalid argument". (This is on an Alpha -- I don't have an i386
> -current machine to test it on at the moment.) I traced it down to
> the fact that getbootfile() is returning "kernel" -- not the full
> pathname as the man page promises. This seems to be because the
> "kern.bootfile" sysctl variable isn't getting set correctly:
>
> alpha# sysctl kern.bootfile
> kern.bootfile: kernel
>
> Because I had an old "/kernel" file and savecore runs in "/", it was
> finding the wrong kernel.
>
> This seems to be some sort of coordination problem between the loader
> and the kernel and, maybe, the Alpha SRM. Can anybody shed some light
> on it?
>
> Also, in "src/sys/boot/common/boot.c" we still have this:
>
> static const char *default_bootfiles = "kernel.ko";
>
> which isn't right any more.
>
> John
>
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