From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Oct 5 10:16:55 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 CB7A637B401 for ; Sat, 5 Oct 2002 10:16:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from relay04.roc.frontiernet.net (relay04.roc.frontiernet.net [66.133.131.37]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C92B43E42 for ; Sat, 5 Oct 2002 10:16:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from todd_robinson@webpath.net) Received: (qmail 6899 invoked from network); 5 Oct 2002 17:16:47 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO row54seat3) (tech462@frontiernet.net@[208.51.174.232]) (envelope-sender ) by relay04.roc.frontiernet.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 5 Oct 2002 17:16:47 -0000 Message-ID: <017f01c26c92$fb61a260$24475292@east.frontiercorp.com> From: "Todd Robinson" To: References: <20021005101617.2e469ec2.nkinkade@dsl-only.net> Subject: Re: compile kernel - copy it to another machine? Date: Sat, 5 Oct 2002 13:16:45 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 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 I've been able to do it with the default Generic Kernel in an emergency, but not otherwise...didn't even try it. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nathan Kinkade" To: Sent: Saturday, October 05, 2002 1:16 PM Subject: compile kernel - copy it to another machine? > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message