From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 23 10:32: 2 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from c014.sfo.cp.net (c014-h001.c014.sfo.cp.net [209.228.12.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 68C8937B43C for ; Wed, 23 Aug 2000 10:32:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: (cpmta 13214 invoked from network); 23 Aug 2000 10:23:15 -0700 Received: from m12hRs4n205.midsouth.rr.com (HELO development1) (24.95.125.205) by smtp.valuedata.net with SMTP; 23 Aug 2000 10:23:15 -0700 X-Sent: 23 Aug 2000 17:23:15 GMT Message-ID: <001101c00d26$92a55140$0200000a@development1> From: "Daryl Chance" To: "FreeBSD Questions" References: <007101c00d23$35e39e60$0200000a@development1> <39A407F6.27FEEE13@urx.com> Subject: Re: Kernel.GENERIC in FreeBSD 4.1 (creating it) Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 12:21:24 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > Hi, > > > > I just upgraded (all but mergemaster) from 4.0 to 4.0 and > > noticed the way the kernel is built is a little differnt. > > I noticed also there is a kernel file and a module directory, > > along with a kernel.old and a module.old directory. > > Don't forget to do a mergemaster after every installworld. yes, i'm working on mergemaster now, waiting on the boss to go to lunch so that theres not much more downtime then need be :). > > what would be the easiest way to create a kernel.GENERIC > > and module.GENERIC w/o making generic, installing, installing > > my cusotom one and copying .old to .GENERIC. is there a > > way i can tell it to install as .GENERIC? > > I like the old way of building a kernel but it was causing too much > trouble and now it is gone. I don't thing you need a module.GENERIC. > The GENERIC just builds more modules. I don't think it builds them > differently, which is what you would need a module.GENERIC for. yes, i know...i was wondering the easiest way to do this though...I still want to incase something F's up and i need to boot generic. -------------------------------------------------------- | Daryl Chance | I have made this letter longer then | | Valuedata, LLC | usual because I lacked the time to | | Memphis, TN | make it shorter. -- Blaise Pascal | -------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message