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Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 05:16:17 -0700 (PDT)
From: Jeff Wyman <wysoft@wysoft.tzo.com>
To: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>
Cc: Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen@math.missouri.edu>,
	Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.ORG>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: HEADS UP! Always use the 'make buildkernel' target to make 
 yerkernels
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With all this effort of editing files, is it really too much to move the
built kernel file and change file/schg flags? Maybe a "make 
activekernel=XXX YYY" could make the appropriate changes to kernel XXX and
move it to /YYY as the active boot kernel. Just a quick thought.


On Mon, 10 Jul 2000, Daniel C. Sobral wrote:

> 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?
> 
> You can edit /boot/loader.conf and add a line like this:
> 
> kernel="XXX"
> 
> This way, XXX will be loaded instead of "kernel".
> 
> -- 
> Daniel C. Sobral			(8-DCS)
> dcs@newsguy.com
> dcs@freebsd.org
> capo@the.great.underground.bsdconpiracy.org
> 
> 		<jkh> _DES: The Book of Bruce has only one sentence in it, and it says
> "the actual directives of my cult are left as an exercise for the
> reader. Good luck."
> 		<EE> jkh: does it really include the 'good luck' part?
> 		<jkh> EE: OK, I made that part up.
> 		<jkh> EE: I figured it should sound a bit more cheery than how Bruce
> initially dictated it to me.
> 
> 
> 
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