From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Aug 1 8:43: 7 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from epsilon.lucida.qc.ca (epsilon.lucida.qc.ca [216.95.146.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B8DB837B8AA for ; Tue, 1 Aug 2000 08:42:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from matt@ARPA.MAIL.NET) Received: (qmail 7038 invoked by uid 1000); 1 Aug 2000 15:42:51 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 1 Aug 2000 15:42:51 -0000 Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2000 11:42:48 -0400 (EDT) From: Matt Heckaman X-Sender: matt@epsilon.lucida.qc.ca To: Chan Tur Wei Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, "H . S . YOON" Subject: Re: succeed. -_-;; In-Reply-To: <4.3.1.2.20000801232908.00ae46f0@zaapth> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Spam-Rating: localhost 1.6.2 0/1000/N Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 1 Aug 2000, Chan Tur Wei wrote: ... : "make installkernel" simply copies the built kernel into /MYKERNEL, : and so those marked lines above are needed to (a) zap the old kernel : away (actually, just renamed as /kernel.old) and then (b) copy the new : kernel in. : : If you didn't do those steps, you'll simply be running the OLD kernel : which in most cases will be the GENERIC or worse yet, your old 3.x : kernel. Or... edit /boot/load.conf - - kernel="/kernel" + kernel="/MYKERNEL" I'm tempted to write a 'make replacekernel' target that does things like that automated, would definately help out :) : Hope this helps, : : -T.W.Chan- * Matt Heckaman - mailto:matt@lucida.qc.ca http://www.lucida.qc.ca/ * * GPG fingerprint - A9BC F3A8 278E 22F2 9BDA BFCF 74C3 2D31 C035 5390 * -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.2 (FreeBSD) Comment: http://www.lucida.qc.ca/pgp iD8DBQE5hu/6dMMtMcA1U5ARAp1SAJ0bHwJE2oLJAxTaarhY0otApJptSACgmKGs H3msDM2ucaKdaTwVKkPZswI= =d6vN -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message