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From: "Andrew C. Hornback" <achornback@worldnet.att.net>
To: "Kasper (swebase)" <kasper@swebase.com>,
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Subject: RE: Kernel.
Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2001 19:18:31 -0400
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Kasper
> (swebase)
> Sent: Saturday, October 13, 2001 9:08 AM
> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> Subject: Kernel.
>
> I have a BSD server (3.3-stable)
>
> But i have a serious problem, i can not build a kernel anymore.
> I have added a new source tree but i still cannot build a kernel.
>
> The error i get is this.
>
> devil# /usr/sbin/config kernel
> Don't forget to do a ``make depend''
> Kernel build directory is ../../compile/kernel
> devil# cd ../../compile/kernel
> devil# make depend
> Makefile:27: *** missing separator.  Stop.
> devil#
>
> Whats wrong?
>
> I cannot build a generic kernel either.

	Umm, GENERIC should already have been built for you.  As to building a new
kernel, I believe you do:

1) make
2) make install
3) shutdown -h now
4) reboot and the new kernel comes up.

	At least that's how I do it, and that's how Greg's book (3rd edition) shows
how to do it.

--- Andy


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