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Date:      Thu, 4 Sep 2003 10:42:36 -0700
From:      "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org>
To:        Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: config(8) KERNEL setting
Message-ID:  <20030904174236.GB1121@dragon.nuxi.com>
In-Reply-To: <20030903211948.Y88884@carver.gumbysoft.com>
References:  <20030904041632.GA14639@freebsd1.cimlogic.com.au> <20030903211948.Y88884@carver.gumbysoft.com>

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On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 09:22:09PM -0700, Doug White wrote:
> On Thu, 4 Sep 2003, John Birrell wrote:
> 
> > however kern.post.mk only uses KERNEL_KO, so even though config(8) has
> > set KERNEL for me, that name only gets used for the boot directory.
> > There doesn't seem to be any way of getting KERNEL_KO set from the
> > kernel config file.
> 
> If you change the name of the kernel binary itself, loader won't be able
> to find it.

Depends on what you rename it to -- mine is "kernel.ko" to stress it
really is just another module.  Our loader finds it fine (as .ko is one
of the supported extentions).


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