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Date:      Tue, 01 Aug 2000 17:07:45 +0100
From:      Chris Stenton <jacs@gnome.co.uk>
To:        Dominic Mitchell <hdm@mistral.co.uk>
Cc:        Chan Tur Wei <twchan@singnet.com.sg>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, "H . S . YOON" <tsoi@xocah.dhs.org>
Subject:   Re: succeed. -_-;; 
Message-ID:  <200008011607.RAA19039@hawk.gnome.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 01 Aug 2000 17:01:17 BST." <20000801170117.A97854@bizboz.mistral.co.uk> 

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or just add

makeoptions     KERNEL=kernel

to your config file and the kernel will go to the standard place.

Chris

> On Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 11:42:48AM -0400, Matt Heckaman wrote:
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> > 
> > On Tue, 1 Aug 2000, Chan Tur Wei wrote:
> > ...
> > : "make installkernel" simply copies the built kernel into /MYKERNEL,
> > : and so those marked lines above are needed to (a) zap the old kernel
> > : away (actually, just renamed as /kernel.old) and then (b) copy the new
> > : kernel in.
> > : 
> > : If you didn't do those steps, you'll simply be running the OLD kernel
> > : which in most cases will be the GENERIC or worse yet, your old 3.x
> > : kernel.
> > 
> > Or...
> > 
> > edit /boot/load.conf
> > 
> > - - kernel="/kernel"
> > + kernel="/MYKERNEL"
> > 
> > I'm tempted to write a 'make replacekernel' target that does things like
> > that automated, would definately help out :)
> 
> It should just be a case of adding it to /boot/loader.conf as it will
> overwrite the default in /boot/defaults/loader.conf.
> 
> This should probably be done as part of "installkernel".
> 
> -Dom
> 
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