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Date: Wed, 24 Sep 1997 09:45:34 +0930
From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To: David Marmor <marmor@z-axis.com>
Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Kernel Compilation
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On Tue, Sep 23, 1997 at 10:36:26AM -0700, David Marmor wrote:
> I installed FreeBSD 2.2.2 on a pentium 166 with 32 megs of ram.  I have
> two
> IDE hard drives with FerrBSD on the second one.  When I try to recompile
> the kernel it stops at:
>
> loading kernel
> rearranging symbols
> text    data    bss     dec      hex
> 856064  57344   75680   989088   f17a0
> chflags noschg /kernel
> chflags: /kernel: no such file or directory
> *** Error code 1
>
> Stop.
>
> Do you know what I can do to get around this problem?

Fix the Makefile :-)

--- Makefile~   Thu Sep 18 10:33:31 1997
+++ Makefile    Wed Sep 24 09:44:44 1997
@@ -368,7 +368,9 @@
                echo "You must first build your kernel before trying to install." ; \
                exit 1 ; \
        fi
-       chflags noschg /kernel
+       if [ -f /kernel ]; then \
+         chflags noschg /kernel; \
+       fi
        mv /kernel /kernel.old
        if [ `/usr/sbin/sysctl -n kern.bootfile` = /kernel ] ; then \
                /usr/sbin/sysctl -w kern.bootfile=/kernel.old ; \

Greg