From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 27 23:51:38 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from 2711.dynacom.net (2711.dynacom.net [206.107.213.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EEBA937B551 for ; Thu, 27 Jul 2000 23:51:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kstewart@urx.com) Received: from urx.com (dsl1-160.dynacom.net [206.159.132.160]) by 2711.dynacom.net (Build 101 8.9.3/NT-8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA06005; Thu, 27 Jul 2000 23:51:34 -0700 Message-ID: <39812D76.7E9C091A@urx.com> Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 23:51:34 -0700 From: Kent Stewart Reply-To: kstewart@urx.com Organization: Dynacom X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.74 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Daugherty Cc: "J. Goodleaf" , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: make depend fails on Kernel References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG David Daugherty wrote: > > On Thu, 27 Jul 2000, J. Goodleaf wrote: > > > I don't know if it will help, but you might have better luck using the > > 'make buildkernel KERNEL=[your kernel]' 'make installkernel' method, which > > I believe is now the officially preferred method for kernel builds, > > especially with upgraded systems. This is detailed in /src/UPDATING. I > > don't know if it's yet filtered into the handbook, but I would definitely > > take a look at UPDATING. (It's not so bad. Initially, I was greatly peeved > > that my 'config' 'make' thing had been deprecated, but I don't think the > > newer method is at all a pain. There are just a few more steps to it.) > I looked on the bsd list archive and found I needed to go to /usr/src then > make buildkernel KERNEL=MACHINENAME I then get: > make: don't know how to make buildkernel. Stop > > This is not an upgrade. I just installed the src and hour and a half ago. Did you copy GENERIC into MACHINENAME? It won't work until you do. Kent > > Thanks. > > David > Software Engineer - NetManage > Work email: david.daugherty@netmanage.com > Home email: doc@wcug.wwu.edu > ICQ 21106703 > Washington State Resident > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kbstew99@hotmail.com http://kstewart.urx.com/kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ Bomber dropping fire retardant in front of Hanford Wild fire. http://kstewart.urx.com/kstewart/bomber.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message