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From: R Joseph Wright <rjoseph@mammalia.org>
To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
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Subject: Re: 4.0-STABLE question (aka, now I did it)
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On Fri, Jul 07, 2000 at 09:32:46PM -0700, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> * Greg Rumple <grumple@zaphon.llamas.net> [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.

Why would you have to modify the files in /boot?
Last time I did it, doing installkernel KERNEL=BLAH would only put BLAH 
in the / directory.  You still have to do
	# chflags noschg kernel BLAH
	# mv kernel kernel.old
	# mv BLAH kernel
	# chflags schg kernel*


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