From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Jul 11 12:44:45 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from gekko.i-clue.de (server.ms-agentur.de [62.153.134.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 459C937B8F1 for ; Tue, 11 Jul 2000 12:44:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from so@server.i-clue.de) Received: from i-clue.de (automatix.i-clue.de [192.168.0.112]) by gekko.i-clue.de (8.9.3/8.9.3/SuSE Linux 8.9.3-0.1) with ESMTP id XAA09014; Tue, 11 Jul 2000 23:47:57 +0200 Message-ID: <396B7958.3B70976D@i-clue.de> Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 21:45:28 +0200 From: Christoph Sold Reply-To: so@server.i-clue.de Organization: i-clue interactive GmbH X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jeff Wyman Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADS UP! Always use the 'make buildkernel' target to makeyerkernels References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jeff Wyman wrote: > > I'm starting to wonder why people continue to drag this message on, it's > just astounding. > > It's been well explained by many. It should be pretty clear now what you > need to do in order to get a kernel working under the condition that > either you: > > - Are upgrading by source and need to work around older tools that have > not yet been replaced by newly built tools. > > - Are on an established system and simply building a plain old kernel. > > And I agree with others when they say that if you're going to complain > about the process, either you need to understand it better, or contribute > by creating a new, better process. > > What is everybody else missing? It is neither explained in /usr/src/UPDATING, nor in the above HEADS UP message. A clear explanation, including all steps, would be helpful. The step missing from the original HEADS UP is you have to move kernel.GENERIC to kernel BEFORE you reboot. This is not done automatically for you. Just my .02 Euro -Christoph Sold -- i-clue GmbH, Endersbacher Str. 57, D-71334 Waiblingen Fon: (0 71 51) 9 59 01-12, Fax: (0 71 51) 9 59 01-55 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message