From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 21 18:17:39 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from c523578-a.sttls1.wa.home.com (c523578-a.sttls1.wa.home.com [24.5.122.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A52814A09 for ; Mon, 21 Jun 1999 18:17:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from todd@c523578-a.sttls1.wa.home.com) Received: from localhost (todd@localhost) by c523578-a.sttls1.wa.home.com (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id SAA04904; Mon, 21 Jun 1999 18:23:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from todd@c523578-a.sttls1.wa.home.com) Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 18:23:54 -0700 (PDT) From: Todd Backman To: Iain Templeton 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 IIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEE! Thanks for helping me remove my head from my A**! That truly figures... ;^) On Tue, 22 Jun 1999, Iain Templeton wrote: > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message