From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 27 13: 1:16 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.urx.com (mail.urx.com [63.170.19.36]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F08B037B403 for ; Mon, 27 Aug 2001 13:01:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kstewart@urx.com) Received: from urx.com [206.159.132.160] by mail.urx.com with ESMTP (SMTPD32-6.06) id A6EC794018A; Mon, 27 Aug 2001 13:00:44 -0700 Message-ID: <3B8AA6E9.B38F91C6@urx.com> Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 13:00:41 -0700 From: Kent Stewart X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd@citystamp.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kernel build problems (still/again/whatever) References: <3B89FADD.EE89365C@citystamp.com> 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 "Matthew P. Marino" wrote: > > 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. Well, for starters there isn't anything called 4.3-current. You have 4.3-release and 4.3-stable. What did you cvsup and how did you try to build things. The buildworld, build[install]kernel, reboot to single user mode, and installworld isn't an option. Read /usr/src/UPDATING. > > 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! That only works if you haven't cvsup'ed. You also need to be doing something like make installkernel KERNCONF=mykernel It sounds like you have multiple bad choices working for you. Read /usr/src/UPDATING around line 220 or so on upgrading to 4.x-stable. Kent Kent > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message