From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 24 14:33:59 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A72B16A4D4 for ; Tue, 24 Aug 2004 14:33:59 +0000 (GMT) Received: from frontend1.messagingengine.com (frontend1.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.30]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D76AE43D58 for ; Tue, 24 Aug 2004 14:33:57 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nkinkade@fastmail.fm) X-Sasl-enc: i3/8jM79ZmAh8PoxyIQSCQ 1093358035 Received: from gentoo-npk.bmp.ub (unknown [206.27.244.136]) by www.fastmail.fm (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A943C14086; Tue, 24 Aug 2004 10:33:55 -0400 (EDT) Received: from nkinkade by gentoo-npk.bmp.ub with local (Exim 4.21) id 1BzcLk-0007gF-5S; Tue, 24 Aug 2004 08:32:36 -0600 Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 08:32:36 -0600 From: Nathan Kinkade To: August Simonelli Message-ID: <20040824143236.GM3767@gentoo-npk.bmp.ub> Mail-Followup-To: August Simonelli , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <46fa40c104082403205419fd65@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="S6vg04ofUPzW4qJg" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <46fa40c104082403205419fd65@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i Sender: cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: uname -v shows no difference after buildkernel and installkernel etc X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Nathan Kinkade List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 14:33:59 -0000 --S6vg04ofUPzW4qJg Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 --=20 PGP Public Key: pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=3Dget&search=3D0xD8527E49 --S6vg04ofUPzW4qJg Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBK1GEO0ZIEthSfkkRAsNiAKC2SMWcsev9yPWhFgXCvmv8umDNngCgo7SM f4roNghg0Sz1LFRM0c9Idrg= =+Woa -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --S6vg04ofUPzW4qJg--