From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 27 12:50:11 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from Interjet.citystamp.com (host-64-65-195-99.choiceone.net [64.65.195.99]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 158B137B401 for ; Mon, 27 Aug 2001 12:50:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsd@citystamp.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by Interjet.citystamp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA00706 for ; Mon, 27 Aug 2001 17:32:41 -0400 (EDT) Received: from UNKNOWN(192.168.1.243), claiming to be "citystamp.com" via SMTP by Interjet.citystamp.com, id smtpdxJh703; Mon Aug 27 21:32:35 2001 Message-ID: <3B89FADD.EE89365C@citystamp.com> Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 15:46:37 +0800 From: "Matthew P. Marino" Reply-To: freebsd@citystamp.com Organization: City Stamp Works Inc. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75C-CCK-MCD {C-UDP; EBM-APPLE} (Macintosh; U; PPC) X-Accept-Language: en,pdf MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: kernel build problems (still/again/whatever) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG The goal was to load 4.3-CURRENT. That aint happening! So, I loaded 4.1. I tried to cvsup to 4.3 and rebuild and install the kernel, that aint happening. So, just for laughs I loaded 4.1 and without doing anything else tried to build the kernel according to the instructions in the handbook chapter 9. The "make buildkernel" errors "Error: subtraction of two symbols in differnt sections "IdlePTD" {data section} - "KERNBASE" {*UND* section} at file address 1569." There is a line early in the log that mentions "vm" was not found. I went back and re-read and tried section 1 method and when I issue "make depend" it says "make : don't know how to make depend". In /etc i have kernel and kernel.generic. They are both the same byte size and both have the same creation date. Even though I went through the kernel configuration section of the install (14 times today, no lie) it seems that the kernel build fails and I get a generic. I have exhausted every avenue of research I can find and they all give the same procedure. It's not working. I have tried every install and upgrade method available with no luck. Is this typical of a freebsd install???? It makes Solaris look easy and that's a scarry thought! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message