From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 21 17:57: 9 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from css.tuu.utas.edu.au (css.tuu.utas.edu.au [131.217.115.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A89A614C27 for ; Mon, 21 Jun 1999 17:57:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from iaint@css.tuu.utas.edu.au) Received: from localhost (iaint@localhost) by css.tuu.utas.edu.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA26127; Tue, 22 Jun 1999 10:55:42 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from iaint@depravitas.tuu.utas.edu.au) Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 10:55:41 +1000 (EST) From: Iain Templeton To: Todd Backman Cc: Andrew Johns , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kernel funk? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 21 Jun 1999, Todd Backman wrote: > > Thanks in advance! > > I am having the following difficulties: > > [ ... ] > > You must first build your kernel before trying to install. > *** Error code 1 > > Stop. > ------------------- > > Make is not working... > > Anyone run into this before? > Yes actually, I was completely confused for a while... You'll find that there is no target in the makefile called kernel... You've left out a very important line in the kernel configuration file ... (although the root on bit might be a bit different). config kernel root on wd0 I suspect that the config program, when it builds the makefiles looks at that line to get the kernel name... Iain. -- Iain Templeton, Computer Science Society sysadmin BE (Computer Systems Engineering) 4th year University of Tasmania, Australia To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message