From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Oct 1 1:45:50 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from bleys.tpgi.com.au (bleys.tpgi.com.au [203.12.160.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7115237B411 for ; Mon, 1 Oct 2001 01:45:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from smtpd@localhost) by bleys.tpgi.com.au (8.11.2/8.11.2) id f918jel06218; Mon, 1 Oct 2001 18:45:40 +1000 Received: from buffy.tpgi.com.au(203.12.160.34) via SMTP by bleys.tpgi.com.au, id smtpdNvYPDu; Mon Oct 1 18:45:39 2001 Received: (from smtpd@localhost) by buffy.tpgi.com.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) id SAA27969; Mon, 1 Oct 2001 18:45:38 +1000 Message-Id: <200110010845.SAA27969@buffy.tpgi.com.au> Received: from pen-56k-070.tpgi.com.au(203.58.15.70), claiming to be "there" via SMTP by buffy.tpgi.com.au, id smtpd9C98jd; Mon Oct 1 18:45:30 2001 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Alastair Hogge Reply-To: agh@tpg.com.au To: Greg White , FreeBSD-Stable Subject: Re: buildkernel - more Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2001 18:45:24 +0000 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3] References: <200109300955.TAA29001@buffy.tpgi.com.au> <20010930182152.I30393@greg.cex.ca> In-Reply-To: <20010930182152.I30393@greg.cex.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Monday 01 October 2001 01:21, Greg White wrote: > On Sun, Sep 30, 2001 at 07:55:16PM +0000, Alastair Hogge wrote: [snip] > > In the last episode I had a helpful tip from someone (sorry can't > > remember there name :-( ). The tip was to make, make install the kernel > > from the kernel directory instead of make buildkernel from /usr/src (the > > usaul way right?). > > I believe that was me. You're welcome. :) Awesome. Thanky you :-) > > Well this tip did help me, I was able to build.install the kernel ( > > thank you very much someon). This tip was fo systems that hadn't run > > make buildworld (?). I had already done the buildworld thing I just still > > got errors. Why? > > I personally have only done custom kernels one of two ways: [snip] > 2. As a normal part of building and installing a new world. I use > basically the method recommended in /usr/src/UPDATING: > > make buildworld > make buildkernel KERNCONF=CUSTOM > make installkernel KERNCONF=CUSTOM > (reboot, possibly single user) > make installworld > mergemaster > (reboot) d'oh! I always forget the reboot into single user mode. I'll try that and see if it works. > I've never tried combining the two methods, as you seem to have tried. I > doubt that it's supposed to work. > > HTH, I hope so too :-) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message