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From: Olaf Seibert <O.Seibert@cs.ru.nl>
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Subject: Re: Can't build 8.1 GENERIC kernel
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Thomas Ronner wrote:

> I don't know about the old-fashioned way, but the new way is:
> 
> # cd /usr/src
> # make buildkernel KERNCONF=GENERIC
> # make installkernel KERNCONF=GENERIC

Thank you, that worked.

I wonder what the underlying difference is; probably something fairly
subtle. The same hack.So file was generated (byte for byte identical).
And something changed between 8.0 and 8.1, since previously, the
old-fashioned method worked.

-Olaf.
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