From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Oct 5 10: 8:12 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8908237B401 for ; Sat, 5 Oct 2002 10:08:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sub21-156.member.dsl-only.net (sub21-156.member.dsl-only.net [63.105.21.156]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD46143E6E for ; Sat, 5 Oct 2002 10:08:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nkinkade@dsl-only.net) Received: from sub21-156.member.dsl-only.net (freebsd.localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by sub21-156.member.dsl-only.net (8.12.5/8.12.4) with SMTP id g95HGMhg038700 for ; Sat, 5 Oct 2002 10:16:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nkinkade@dsl-only.net) Date: Sat, 5 Oct 2002 10:16:17 -0700 From: Nathan Kinkade To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: compile kernel - copy it to another machine? Message-Id: <20021005101617.2e469ec2.nkinkade@dsl-only.net> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.7.8claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.6) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Will it work to compile a kernel on one machine and then copy/boot that kernel on another machine with different hardware? I've been trying to do this, but I can't get the kernel to boot on the machine to which it was copied. I've made sure that the kernel config file is crafted specifically to the hardware of the machine to which I am copying it. I would like to do this because one of my machines is many orders faster than the other and can compile a kernel in a matter of a few minutes, whereas the other machine (a P166) might take an hour. I have found a few pages where people talk of this, but no specific caveats or examples. Does anyone have any input on this? Thanks, Nathan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message