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Date:      Mon, 10 Jul 2000 00:43:24 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Adam <bsdx@looksharp.net>
To:        Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen@math.missouri.edu>
Cc:        Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.ORG>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: HEADS UP! Always use the 'make buildkernel' target to make  yerkernels
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007100043000.1375-100000@turtle.looksharp.net>
In-Reply-To: <396952A9.231AC2EC@math.missouri.edu>

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Stick kernel="/XXX" in /boot/loader.conf


On Sun, 9 Jul 2000, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote:

>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
>
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