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Subject: Re: 5.3 and building world
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Yep, I know enoguh to read through the handbook, the problem lies in
the fact that if I use make buildkernel KERNCONF=MYKERNEL I get a stop
error which says I have to buildworld first (even though I have before
this step). Thats the reason for the question. But thanks anyway

Cheers!


On Sun, 6 Mar 2005 11:59:55 -0800, Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com> wrote:
> On Sunday 06 March 2005 11:17 am, gabriel wrote:
> > Alright so when upgrading to 5.3 from 5.2 I cvsuped the source which
> > obviously got GENERIC overwritten. My question is, besides the
> > instructions on /usr/src/Makefile(?) is there another way to update
> > the source and be able to specify a custom kernel?
> 
> There is a whole chapter on configuring your own kernel. They show you
> how to cp GENERIC to your own name and then use it. See
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/kernelconfig.html
> 
> They show you both the config way and the new build[install]kernel way
> of maintaing your kernel. I log everything and have the individual
> commands in shell scripts so that a mistake won't do something
> unexpected.
> 
> Kent
> 
> >
> > Cheers!
> 
> --
> Kent Stewart
> Richland, WA
> 
> http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html
> 


-- 
gabriel,

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