From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Jul 7 21:36:42 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from lerami.lerctr.org (lerami.lerctr.org [207.158.72.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F7DC37BABB for ; Fri, 7 Jul 2000 21:36:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ler@lerctr.org) Received: (from ler@localhost) by lerami.lerctr.org (8.10.1/8.10.1/20000703) id e684aBt06569; Fri, 7 Jul 2000 23:36:11 -0500 (CDT) From: Larry Rosenman Message-Id: <200007080436.e684aBt06569@lerami.lerctr.org> Subject: Re: 4.0-STABLE question (aka, now I did it) In-Reply-To: <20000707213246.V25571@fw.wintelcom.net> "from Alfred Perlstein at Jul 7, 2000 09:32:46 pm" To: Alfred Perlstein Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2000 23:36:11 -0500 (CDT) Cc: Greg Rumple , stable@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL79 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I had this too, had to REALLY boot the new kernel. Check the dmesg log... Larry > * Greg Rumple [000707 21:27] wrote: > > Well after seeing all the discussion on using make buildkernel > > KERNEL=BLAH I decided I would try it too. :-) Just to see what it > > does. Lo and behold, it builds my kernel. I than even did a make > > installkernel KERNEL=BLAH (which actually installs my kernel as /BLAH > > instead of /kernel). I even managed to boot it, and my system comes up > > to the point of loading the linux kernel module for linux binary > > compatibility and than it reboots. This went on for like 4 hours before > > I walked back in to see what was going on. So it appears that there is > > something quite different here than just doing a standard kernel > > install, it also rebuilds and installs all the kernel modules. > > > > So is the linux.ko kernel module really broken? > > Are you sure you're actually booting your new kernel? It would seem > that unless you modified the files in /boot to load your new kernel > that you're old one would run and try to load the newer linux module > and then blow up. > > -Alfred > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message -- Larry Rosenman http://www.lerctr.org/~ler Phone: +1 972-414-9812 (voice) Internet: ler@lerctr.org US Mail: 1905 Steamboat Springs Drive, Garland, TX 75044-6749 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message