Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2005 22:11:00 -0800 From: Doug Hardie <bc979@lafn.org> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: f-questions List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: 5.3 Building Kernel/World Message-ID: <8F92CAE2-684E-11D9-8611-000393681B06@lafn.org> In-Reply-To: <20050117060510.GA63358@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <CC0E9838-684B-11D9-8611-000393681B06@lafn.org> <20050117060510.GA63358@xor.obsecurity.org>
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On Jan 16, 2005, at 22:05, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Sun, Jan 16, 2005 at 09:51:13PM -0800, Doug Hardie wrote: >> The instructions for building world/kernel for 4.x are straight >> forward >> and work fine. However, I seem to have munged two 5.3 installations >> now. I have been through all the UPDATING notes and the handbook and >> something is obviously not clear. >> >> The approach I used is: >> >> Clean install from 5.3 distribution. >> make buildworld >> create new config file LAFN >> make buildkernel KERNCONF=LAFN >> make installkernel KERNCONF=LAFN >> reboot >> make installworld >> reboot >> >> At that point It appeared I was using the LAFN kernel rather than >> generic. >> >> However, tonight I tried to make a new kernel. NO go: >> ERROR: version of config(8) does not match kernel! >> config version = 500012, version required = 500013 >> >> So I tried to reinstall the kernel: >> make installkernel KERNCONF=LAFN >> install -o root -g wheel -m 555 acpi.ko /boot/kernel >> install: acpi.ko: No such file or directory >> >> How are you supposed to build a new kernel that works? How do I >> recover this? > > The only way I can think for this to happen is if your source tree was > inconsistent (i.e. not completely updated), or you updated your > sources after you did the installworld, and the kernel depends on the > newer version of config than the one you have built (in this case the > 'safe' buildworld/buildkernel/installkernel method you used to begin > with should still work). > > Kris those instructions were typed just as noted with nothing inbetween. I have replaced kernel with kernel.old so the system will boot. But now I have an old kernel and new world (possibly). Nothing for reconstruction seems to work. buildkernel continues to give the above error. I guess I'll try a buildworld again tomorrow. Don't know what else to do.
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