From owner-freebsd-current Fri Mar 13 20:04:35 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA01769 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Fri, 13 Mar 1998 20:04:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from goliath.camtech.com.au (goliath.camtech.net.au [203.5.73.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA01751 for ; Fri, 13 Mar 1998 20:04:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from thyerm@camtech.net.au) Received: from camtech.net.au (dialup-ad-13-15.camtech.net.au [203.55.242.79]) by goliath.camtech.com.au (8.8.5/8.8.2) with ESMTP id OAA22672; Sat, 14 Mar 1998 14:32:02 +1030 (CST) Message-ID: <350A0175.F8D28907@camtech.net.au> Date: Sat, 14 Mar 1998 14:33:01 +1030 From: Matthew Thyer X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Studded CC: FreeBSD CURRENT Subject: Re: trouble booting References: <3509C8D7.60F8C892@camtech.net.au> <3509CB68.C87849FA@camtech.net.au> <3509D966.DAE44397@dal.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I'm curious too. I hope someone else might comment on the possible benefits of making a new kernel first ! I think I read somewhere once that occasionally a make world may require this... i.e. the new code uses new features in the kernel during compilation or something like that. Is this real anyone ? Or am I just wasting 8 minutes or so doing this. Studded wrote: > > Matthew Thyer wrote: > > > I always make a new kernel, boot on it and then make world. > > I'm curious about this. This isn't a dig, although my incredulity might > make it seem so. Every piece of documentation I've seen says to do it > the other way around. Make world first, then build kernel, then boot. > Experience tells me that this is a good thing, and there have been > numerous changes made in the past that require you to build the world > first (like ipfw). > > So the question is, why do you build the kernel first? What advantage > do you think it will provide? > > Curious, > > Doug > > -- > *** Chief Operations Officer, DALnet IRC network *** > *** Proud operator, designer and maintainer of the world's largest > *** Internet Relay Chat server. 5,328 clients and still growing. > *** Try spider.dal.net on ports 6662-4 (Powered by FreeBSD) -- /=====================================================================\ |Work: Matthew.Thyer@dsto.defence.gov.au | Home: thyerm@camtech.net.au| \=====================================================================/ "If it is true that our Universe has a zero net value for all conserved quantities, then it may simply be a fluctuation of the vacuum of some larger space in which our Universe is imbedded. In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is simply one of those things which happen from time to time." E. P. Tryon from "Nature" Vol.246 Dec.14, 1973 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message