From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Aug 26 20:52:43 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from odin.egate.net (as2.dm.egate.net [216.235.1.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 82E2837B42C for ; Sat, 26 Aug 2000 20:52:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (buff@localhost) by odin.egate.net (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id XAA11362 for ; Sat, 26 Aug 2000 23:52:26 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: odin.egate.net: buff owned process doing -bs Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2000 23:52:24 -0400 (EDT) From: William Denton X-Sender: buff@odin.egate.net To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: What's the best way to build a GENERIC kernel? Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, Before the 'make buildkernel' change to STABLE last month, I had my usual kernel as /MYCROFT and the generic one as /GENERIC, and every now and then when I built a new world I'd install a new GENERIC to be on the safe side. (I once installed the wrong kernel on this machine, and had some trouble with an old GENERIC, so I like to keep it fairly up to date.) Now, though, what's the best way to build it? Building it the normal way will install it as /kernel, so I'd have to move it out of the way by hand. And what about modules? My custom kernel uses fewer, so would GENERIC run into trouble if it looked for them and they weren't there? Bill -- William Denton : Toronto, Canada : http://www.miskatonic.org/ : Caveat lector. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message