From owner-freebsd-current Sun Aug 27 16:18:12 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mail.westbend.net (ns1.westbend.net [209.224.254.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B94237B424 for ; Sun, 27 Aug 2000 16:18:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from admin (admin.westbend.net [209.224.254.141]) by mail.westbend.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id SAA10872; Sun, 27 Aug 2000 18:18:08 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from hetzels@westbend.net) Message-ID: <001c01c0107d$0fcca480$8dfee0d1@westbend.net> From: "Scot W. Hetzel" To: "James Johnson" , References: Subject: Re: Installkernel Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2000 18:18:07 -0500 Organization: West Bend Internet X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG From: "James Johnson" > The method of building and installing a kernel to me seems a bit off.. Both > the buildworld and installworld targets default to GENERIC, yet GENERIC is a > file checked into the -CURRENT CVS repository.. Any changes to this file > will get blown away if whenever you update the sources unless you explicity Your supposed to copy GENERIC to a new name, and then build your kernel with that file. You can change the default kernel to build by specifying: KERNEL= MY-KERNEL in the /etc/make.conf file. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message