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Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2007 17:03:37 +0100
From: "Pietro Cerutti" <pietro.cerutti@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: dmesg wrong kernel name
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On 2/11/07, dleal@webvolution.net <dleal@webvolution.net> wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I just installed and upgrade my new freebsd system. From 6.1 release to
> 6.2-stable.
> As the handbook says, I built and installed a new custom kernel.
> So I was expecting to see after all operations the new name after boot:
> Something like:
> root@mymachine:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/MYKERNEL
> but I got:
> root@mymachine:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC
>
> I did already rebuilt and installed MYKERNEL again, but all seams to be in
> the same situation.
>
> What could I be doing wrong?

Check out your "make [build|install]kernel" command:
did you include KERNCONF=MYKERNEL?

Check out your kernel config file:
did you change the line
ident GENERIC
to
ident MYKERNEL
?

>
> Thanks

Hope this helps,


> daniel.


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