From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Jan 29 12:34:17 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D0E437B401 for ; Wed, 29 Jan 2003 12:34:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from PIKES.panasas.com (gw2.panasas.com [65.194.124.178]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E79243F85 for ; Wed, 29 Jan 2003 12:34:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from chris@pennasoft.com) Received: from waumbek ([172.17.2.36]) by PIKES.panasas.com with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2653.13) id XA31VHGF; Wed, 29 Jan 2003 15:34:14 -0500 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Chris BeHanna Reply-To: chris@pennasoft.com Organization: PennaSoft Corporation To: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: when make installkernel doesn't Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 15:34:13 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.3 References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <200301291534.13728.chris@pennasoft.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wednesday 29 January 2003 11:44, J.F. Noonan wrote: > > On Wednesday 29 January 2003 10:15, J.F. Noonan wrote: > > Hi Chris, thanks for the reply, > > > This is one thing: > > > This morning, I dropped to single-user and did a make installworld > > > followed by a make installkernel KERNCONF=3DMYKERNELNAME. I did a > > > > You do a make installkernel *first*, *then* reboot and make sure > > it at least comes back to single user. > > Yes, you are of course right about that, I think I made this > mistake once before a long time ago and caused a great mess. BUT, > even though I've done this stupid thing, why does "make > installworld" apparently run to completion (w/o a single peep or > complaint), but not actually DO anything? The binaries associated > with the "make kernel" are all newer than the stuff from "make > world", so this should look like I'm starting out on a new kernel > build, no? make installworld doesn't touch the kernel bits Why "make installkernel" failed is beyond me. What I would do is try blowing away /usr/obj and start again. make buildworld make buildkernel KERNCONF=3DMYKERNEL # replace with your actual conf make installkernel KERNCONF=3DMYKERNEL shutdown -r now # interrupt reboot sequence and boot -s, unless your source and # obj trees are accessed via NFS, in which case, come back # multiuser, mount 'em, and drop back to single user. make installworld mergemaster --=20 Chris BeHanna http://www.pennasoft.com=20 Principal Consultant =20 PennaSoft Corporation =20 chris@pennasoft.com =20 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message