From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Feb 18 10:31:51 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from regret.globalserve.net (regret.globalserve.net [209.90.144.72]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BCAEF11417 for ; Thu, 18 Feb 1999 10:31:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dm@regret.globalserve.net) Received: (from dm@localhost) by regret.globalserve.net (8.9.3/8.9.1) id OAA00835 for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Thu, 18 Feb 1999 14:43:15 GMT (envelope-from dm) Message-ID: <19990218144314.C305@globalserve.net> Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 14:43:14 +0000 From: "Dan - Sr. Admin" To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 3.0-Release (Nov 1998) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > That's what I was afraid of - "unknown" means you have an a.out kernel. > I'm wondering if I should "convert to elf" before building 3.1-STABLE, > or will that happen > automagically when I build the world and kernel with the 3.1R tool chain > ??? 3.1-STABLE will install an ELF kernel automagically. You will have to use make -DFORCE install though, to ensure that you read the documentation available first (http://www.freebsd.org/~peter/elfday.html i think). make -DFORCE install will also install the new boot loader to handle ELF kernels. Regards, -- Dan Moschuk (TFreak!dm@globalserve.net) Senior Systems/Network Administrator Globalserve Communications Inc., a Primus Canada Company "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message