From owner-freebsd-doc Wed Jul 18 10:38:45 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from bazooka.unixfreak.org (bazooka.unixfreak.org [63.198.170.138]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E464237B403 for ; Wed, 18 Jul 2001 10:38:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dima@unixfreak.org) Received: from hornet.unixfreak.org (hornet [63.198.170.140]) by bazooka.unixfreak.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D9EAE3E2F; Wed, 18 Jul 2001 10:37:55 -0700 (PDT) To: Peter Pentchev Cc: doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: [CFR] Handbook doc for installkernel failure at securelevel In-Reply-To: <20010718191837.E29731@ringworld.oblivion.bg>; from roam@orbitel.bg on "Wed, 18 Jul 2001 19:18:37 +0300" Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2001 10:37:55 -0700 From: Dima Dorfman Message-Id: <20010718173755.D9EAE3E2F@bazooka.unixfreak.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Peter Pentchev writes: > Index: doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/kernelconfig/chapter.sgml ... > + > + Installing the new kernel fails > + > + > + If the kernel compiled fine, but failed to install > + (the make install or > + make installkernel command failed), > + the first thing to check is if your system is running at > + securelevel 1 or higher (see &man.init.8;). The kernel > + installation tries to remove the immutable flag from > + your old kernel file, and set I think this would be better written: ..tries to remove the immutable flag from your old kernel, and set... since not all kernels are named "kernel". > + the immutable flag on the new one. Since securelevel 1 > + or higher prevents changing the immutable flag for any ^^^^^^^^^^ This isn't technicall true. You can set schg on files to your heart's desire with a raised securelevel; there's no risk in doing that, so it's allowed. You just can't lower it. A minor nit, perhaps, but it'd be nice if things were accurate. Other than that, it looks pretty good. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message