From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Aug 1 9: 1:30 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from exchange.mistral.co.uk (gate.mistral.co.uk [195.184.225.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C154B37B575 for ; Tue, 1 Aug 2000 09:01:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hdm@mistral.co.uk) Received: from bizboz.mistral.co.uk ([195.184.225.25]) by exchange.mistral.co.uk with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2448.0) id PLBL6B6H; Tue, 1 Aug 2000 16:54:01 +0100 Received: by bizboz.mistral.co.uk (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 7E5DE383; Tue, 1 Aug 2000 17:01:17 +0100 (BST) Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2000 17:01:17 +0100 From: Dominic Mitchell To: Matt Heckaman Cc: Chan Tur Wei , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, "H . S . YOON" Subject: Re: succeed. -_-;; Message-ID: <20000801170117.A97854@bizboz.mistral.co.uk> References: <4.3.1.2.20000801232908.00ae46f0@zaapth> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: ; from matt@ARPA.MAIL.NET on Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 11:42:48AM -0400 X-Warning: Incoming message from The Big Giant Head! X-OS: FreeBSD 4.1-RC i386 X-Uptime: 4:50PM up 12 days, 25 mins, 8 users, load averages: 0.27, 0.37, 0.40 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 11:42:48AM -0400, Matt Heckaman wrote: > -----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 :) It should just be a case of adding it to /boot/loader.conf as it will overwrite the default in /boot/defaults/loader.conf. This should probably be done as part of "installkernel". -Dom To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message