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To: Kevin Oberman <oberman@es.net>
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Subject: Re: 4.4->RELENG_4 error when running make...
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>Of course, if you installed the new system before building the new
>kernel, you would not have hit this problem, but you are living
>dangerously when you install the new world and try to run with the old
>kernel.
>
That is exactly how I've been doing it for years. 'cd /usr/src',  'make 
buildworld', 'make installworld', 'cd sys/i386/conf', 'rm -rf 
../../compile/mykernel', 'config mykernel', 'cd ../../compile/mykernel', 
'make depend', 'make', 'make install', do manual merge, reboot.

This has never failed, except when I've used mergemaster, which can make 
a mess of things easily.
How would this method differ from using 'make buildkernel 
KERNCONF=/usr/src/sys/i386/conf/mykernel' and 'make installkernel 
KERNCONF=/usr/src/sys/i386/conf/mykernel' ? Both methods install the new 
kernel on a running machine.


Jeff Love
Burgh-Com


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