From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Apr 28 23:44:31 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from fw.bby.com.au (ns.bby.com.au [192.83.119.129]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E59C14CA2 for ; Wed, 28 Apr 1999 23:44:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnb@itga.com.au) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by fw.bby.com.au (8.8.8/8.6.9) id QAA17839 for ; Thu, 29 Apr 1999 16:44:21 +1000 (EST) Received: from lightning.itga.com.au(192.168.71.20) via SMTP by fw.bby.com.au, id smtpd017837; Thu Apr 29 06:44:13 1999 Received: from lightning (lightning [192.168.71.20]) by lightning.itga.com.au (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id QAA02237; Thu, 29 Apr 1999 16:44:12 +1000 (EST) Message-Id: <199904290644.QAA02237@lightning.itga.com.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.1 12/23/97 From: Gregory Bond To: stable@freebsd.org Subject: WARNING: need to do a 'config -r' Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 16:44:12 +1000 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Something has changed in an odd sort of way since I did my last kernel install (Apr 1) and today. Normally, I do cvsup make buildworld make installworld mergemaster check my kernel config files against changes to LINT and/or GENERIC config -g Kernel cd compile/Kernel make depend all make install reboot. This time, it all went without errors but the kernel generated would not boot. It got loaded by the BTX loader, the kernel booting countdown went to zero, then nothing - no message, no activity, no nothing. Reset switch the only way out. Fortunately, the old kernel.GENERIC would boot. Phew! I had to do a 'config -r -g Kernel' and rebuild the kernel from absolute scratch before I could get a bootable kernel. It seems something in the kernel sources changed but in a way too subtle for make depend to discover... Greg. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message