From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Jul 9 21:37: 3 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rdc1.il.home.com (ha1.rdc1.il.home.com [24.2.1.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF04F37C497; Sun, 9 Jul 2000 21:36:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from stephen@math.missouri.edu) Received: from math.missouri.edu ([24.12.197.197]) by mail.rdc1.il.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.00 201-229-121) with ESMTP id <20000710043656.PNVP1229.mail.rdc1.il.home.com@math.missouri.edu>; Sun, 9 Jul 2000 21:36:56 -0700 Message-ID: <396952A9.231AC2EC@math.missouri.edu> Date: Sun, 09 Jul 2000 23:35:53 -0500 From: Stephen Montgomery-Smith X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.14 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kris Kennaway Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADS UP! Always use the 'make buildkernel' target to make yerkernels References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Kris Kennaway wrote: > > Summary of Officially Sanctioned Update Procedure: > > make buildworld > make buildkernel > make installkernel > shutdown (drop into single-user mode) > make installworld > mergemaster > reboot > The problem I have with make installkernel is the following: if my kernel is called XXX, then the name of the new kernel is /XXX, not /kernel. So one would have to add the instructions: cd / chflags noschg XXX mv XXX kernel chflags schg XXX This seems quite a bit of extra instructions. Is this what is intended? -- Stephen Montgomery-Smith Department of Mathematics, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211 Phone 573-882-4540, fax 573-882-1869 http://www.math.missouri.edu/~stephen stephen@math.missouri.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message