From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 28 07:12:03 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE4F016A4CE for ; Sun, 28 Nov 2004 07:12:03 +0000 (GMT) Received: from gizmo08bw.bigpond.com (gizmo08bw.bigpond.com [144.140.70.18]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 931A943D48 for ; Sun, 28 Nov 2004 07:12:02 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ekeberg@bigpond.net.au) Received: (qmail 9278 invoked from network); 28 Nov 2004 07:12:00 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO BWMAM18.bigpond.com) (144.135.24.118) by gizmo08bw.bigpond.com with SMTP; 28 Nov 2004 07:12:00 -0000 Received: from cpe-139-168-222-36.sa.bigpond.net.au ([139.168.222.36]) by BWMAM18.bigpond.com(MAM REL_3_4_2a 285/17361841) with SMTP id 17361841; Sun, 28 Nov 2004 17:12:00 +1000 From: Hugh Ekeberg To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2004 16:41:55 +0930 User-Agent: KMail/1.7 References: <41A97048.5090302@comcast.net> In-Reply-To: <41A97048.5090302@comcast.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200411281641.56440.ekeberg@bigpond.net.au> Subject: Re: Custom Kernel X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2004 07:12:03 -0000 I'm bit of a newbe myself and had the same problems. Finally I decided NOT to comment out those options in my copy of the GENERIC file which related to hardware options I don't have. So if you have been commenting out all those hardware options in the kernel configuration file for hardware you don't have, then open a fresh copy of GENERIC and leave those options as they are. So basically I left my copy of GENERIC alone, changing the first part only; The original looks like this: # $FreeBSD: src/sys/i386/conf/GENERIC,v 1.420 2004/11/02 20:57:19 andre Exp $ machine i386 #cpu I486_CPU #cpu I586_CPU #cpu I686_CPU ident GENERIC My copy looks like this: # $FreeBSD: src/sys/i386/conf/GENERIC,v 1.420 2004/11/02 20:57:19 andre Exp $ machine i386 #cpu I486_CPU #cpu I586_CPU cpu I686_CPU ident MY_COPY_CALL _IT_WHAT_EVER I added some extra options related to sound and graphics and later I add some more once I feel more comfortable with FreeBSD. On Sun, 28 Nov 2004 15:59, Rem Roberti wrote: > Hi Everyone, > As a rank newbie I have been trying to install a custom kernel, and > have attempted to follow the directions in the handbook. But I just > can't get the thing to "make". The handbook also says that it is okay > to send the configuration file to this list for analysis. > Nevertheless I thought that it would be a good idea to ask first. I > would appreciate it if someone would let me know how I should handle > this. > Thanks in advance. > Rem > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"