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Date:      Wed, 3 Dec 2003 20:29:08 -0800
From:      paul beard <paulbeard@mac.com>
To:        freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: config(8) out of sync with source
Message-ID:  <6721DD2F-2612-11D8-ADD5-000A95BBCCF8@mac.com>
In-Reply-To: <20031204035800.GA68444@sillyrabbi.dyndns.org>
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On Dec 3, 2003, at 7:58 PM, William O'Higgins wrote:

> I hadn't used that method, because I was unsure of the results, and the
> procedure in the Handbook is more extensive than I had time for.
>
> My reticence was well founded, since when I followed the above 
> procedure
> it rendered the computer non-bootable.
>

I doubt it's the procedure that had that effect: I've built kernels and 
worlds on several machines (desktops and laptop) since 4.2 RELEASE and 
I think I had one dud kernel in all the time.

I'm not sure how to interpret the comment that "the procedure in the 
Handbook is more extensive than I had time for." It doesn't take any 
time, really, unless you sit and watch the compiler messages streaming 
past.

If you haven't tried this yet, I recommend following the Handbook 
method with a GENERIC kernel and see how that goes. That should give 
you a kernel remarkably similar to the one you installed initially. If 
that works, you can rest assured the procedure is sound, and it's the 
configuration that needs tweaking.

--
Paul Beard
<paulbeard.no-ip.org/movabletype/>
paulbeard [at] mac.com



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