Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1999 13:08:16 -0500 (EST) From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@hotjobs.com> To: "Thomas T. Veldhouse" <veldy@visi.com> Cc: FreeBSD-Current <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: New BOOT Blocks - installation docs? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9901041305160.37756-100000@bright.fx.genx.net> In-Reply-To: <01de01be380a$01064890$236319ac@w142844.carlson.com>
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On Mon, 4 Jan 1999, Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote: > Does anybody know if there is any documentation (or a step-by-step > procedure) for installing the new boot blocks and then an elf kernel. > I have not had any luck in the past (perhaps because I am booting off > of the secondary master IDE drive). It seems to me that it shouldn't > be very hard to do, but without documentation I am just going to mess > up my system. I am a bit worried since the system is supposed to go > all ELF in two days. I have been trying to track current for various > reasons, so I really need this one. > > Thanks in advance, > > Tom Veldhouse > veldy@visi.com check the date on the files in /boot to make sure they have been installed properly, then: disklabel -B -b /boot/boot1 -s /boot/boot2 <disk> <disk should be wd0/wd1/wd2...> (i assume you know how to compile a kernel) to compile an ELF kernel you need to set the enviorment variable KERNFORMAT to 'elf' setenv KERNFORMAT elf -or- export KERNFORMAT=elf then in the compile/kernelname dir: make clean make depend make all make install reboot. -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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