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Date:      Wed, 16 Apr 2003 12:12:32 +0100
From:      Ceri Davies <setantae@submonkey.net>
To:        Dragoncrest <dragoncrest@voyager.net>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Where'd my kernel config file go??
Message-ID:  <20030416111232.GB57521@submonkey.net>
In-Reply-To: <20030416023334.GB587@c-49c170d5.bredbandsbolaget.se>
References:  <5.2.0.9.2.20030415211630.01e78ec0@pop.voyager.net> <20030416023334.GB587@c-49c170d5.bredbandsbolaget.se>

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On Wed, Apr 16, 2003 at 04:33:34AM +0200, Martin Karlsson wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> * Dragoncrest <dragoncrest@voyager.net> [2003-04-15 21.19 -0400]:
> > 	Hi all.  I was looking to try to do some configuring with wine and 
> > 	it complained about needing a special kernel config.  So of course I went 
> > up to /usr/src/sys/i386/conf and popped into GENERIC to add the line I 
> > needed.  Well, to my surprise, all I found was the generic kernel config 
> > file.  No special editing, none of the stuff I had done, just the standard, 
> > straight out of the box generic kernel config file.
> > 
> > 	What happened to the custom one I did?
> 
> Did you update your sources? If so, my guess is that cvsup simply 
> owerwrote GENERIC. You may want to give your next kernel another 
> name.

Yes, please.

A bug report where you say you're running GENERIC, and are actually using
your own custom kernel that happens to be called GENERIC wouldn't be
particularly useful.

Ceri
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