Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 00:49:10 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Jan Christian Meyer <Jan.Christian.Meyer@idi.ntnu.no> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: kernel Message-ID: <20040513214910.GA2334@gothmog.gr> In-Reply-To: <200405121735.50781.Jan.Christian.Meyer@idi.ntnu.no> References: <20040512074547.82863.qmail@web25005.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> <1765051546.20040512120849@ipb.redline.ru> <200405121735.50781.Jan.Christian.Meyer@idi.ntnu.no>
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On 2004-05-12 17:35, Jan Christian Meyer wrote:
> > MYKERNEL is name of the custom kernel. If you want to build a new
> > kernel, you must give it some name, for example MYKERNEL.
snip
> Just to add a little something for flavor, I've found it useful to
> keep my config file elsewhere and use a symbolic link from
> /usr/src/sys/i386/conf, i.e.
snip
> # cd /usr/src/sys/i386/conf
> # ln -s /root/kernel-config/MYKERNEL
FWIW, I keep my kernel configs outside of /usr/src too.
diomedes> ls -ld CELERON
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 31 May 14 2003 CELERON -> /local/sys/CELERON
diomedes> _
> Thus, editing, config and compilation works perfectly by the book, but
> if I feel like it, I can nuke /usr/src/sys entirely [...]
... which I promptly went ahead and did once. Only to discover I had
also nuked my "precious" (sic) kernel config. That made me think of
ways to avoid the same silliness in the future. The symlink was,
naturally, the first thought that I came up with :-)
- Giorgos
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