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Date:      Tue, 24 Aug 2004 08:32:36 -0600
From:      Nathan Kinkade <nkinkade@ub.edu.bz>
To:        August Simonelli <augusts@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: uname -v shows no difference after buildkernel and installkernel etc
Message-ID:  <20040824143236.GM3767@gentoo-npk.bmp.ub>
In-Reply-To: <46fa40c104082403205419fd65@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <46fa40c104082403205419fd65@mail.gmail.com>

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On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 08:20:51PM +1000, August Simonelli wrote:
> Hi all,
>=20
> I recently did the following:
>=20
> installed FreeBSD 5.2.1 from the iso
> cvsup'd the source (using tag=3DRELENG_5_2)
> followed section 19 of the handbook
> followed section 8 for the kernel rebuild and did a custom kernel
> (placing in /root/kernels and linking it, as per section 8.3)
> everything went well
> did a mergmaster and didn't accept any changes (it was a fresh system)
> rebooted and logged in
> did uname -v and got the same output as before all the above (Feb
> build date (5.2.1, right?), reference to GENERIC kernel not my custom
> kernel - my search of the list archives tells me it should show the
> local machine and a recent date in this output)
>=20
> Do I need to update somewhere to tell the system to boot the new
> kernel? If so, I totally missed that in the handbook (whoops).
>=20
> This also leads me to ask how one best confirms the system has "changed?"
>=20
> Thanks in advance for any help,
>=20
> August

What does your symlink look like?  So you put the newly built kernel in
/root/kernels, then did something like?:

# ln -s /root/kernels/mykernel /boot/kernel/kernel

Nathan
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