From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jul 27 8:11: 0 2002 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 235AC37B400 for ; Sat, 27 Jul 2002 08:10:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rutger.owt.com (rutger.owt.com [204.118.6.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 95EB243E3B for ; Sat, 27 Jul 2002 08:10:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kstewart@owt.com) Received: from owt.com (owt-207-41-94-232.owt.com [207.41.94.232]) by rutger.owt.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA12620; Sat, 27 Jul 2002 08:10:55 -0700 Message-ID: <3D42B7FE.8000209@owt.com> Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2002 08:10:54 -0700 From: Kent Stewart User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020314 Netscape6/6.2.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us, es-mx MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Tony Sim Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: help, my computer would not make kernel References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed 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 Tony Sim wrote: > hi, i'm a complete newbie who have decided to build his own kernel for > his computer. i've been looking through the handbook provided on > www.freebsd.org. > > I've been trying to build a kernel for my computer so that i could > include sound and perhaps other functions that were left out in generic > kernel. > But, when i type in "make buildkernel KERNCONF=MYKERNEL", it would > function for awhile, then says that there was an error and aborts the > process. > so, i tried the traditional way, and i found out that "make depend" > functions w/out an error, while the following "make" functions creates > an error. i do not understand the cause nor the error. What is goin on? It usually means you have mischosen some option. For example, USB support has a umass that requires miibus support. You may have not installed all of the souce code that is neeeded. We can't help you without the error messages. Kent > > I've been speculating reasons, but i've come up with only one so far. > I've used the cd iso image from the web to create 4 cd's. at the > similar timeline, i've also created cd for other operating system. > while trying to install the other operating system in other computer, > i've found out that some of its files r corrupted. it wasn't the fault > of the iso because the same file in iso had no flaws. so i'm thinking > that the burning process wasn't as good as i thought it was. However, > could freebsd be installed with corrupted files? could this be the > reason why my "make" commands malfunction? i did use "make" or "make > install" for installing various other packages (though some of them > wouldn't work due to sound or graphcal reasons... one of the important > reasons why i want my kernel) > > and... one more question... how do i get OpenGL support? is that has > to do w/ kernel as well? or is it a port that requires an installation? > > and (sorry, one more question) I've found out that i could load my > soundcard using "kldload". Though i'm yet to see if it truely works, (i > do not have any files in the computer that makes sound...) > > well, thanx for reading this far, i wish you all a great day > > _________________________________________________________________ > Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > . > -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message