Date: Thu, 01 Jul 2010 15:10:13 -0400 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Ed Flecko <edflecko@gmail.com> Subject: Re: /boot is full after running "make installkernel" on FreeBSD 8.0 Message-ID: <44mxub6msq.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <20100701185723.GD19474@libertas.local.camdensoftware.com> (Chip Camden's message of "Thu, 1 Jul 2010 11:57:23 -0700") References: <AANLkTil7rb8_YNbGPfwsNt1_Zn4hdOr9hTpGwVwTEbrF@mail.gmail.com> <20100701185723.GD19474@libertas.local.camdensoftware.com>
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Chip Camden <sterling@camdensoftware.com> writes: > I've experienced the same thing on amd64 -- the default partition size > for root is too small. Rather than going to the trouble of correcting > it, I just 'rm -r /boot/kernel.old' when it fails and then redo 'make > installkernel', and all seems OK. That's a little dangerous, because you're deleting your last known-good kernel. I'd feel better about recommending just removing the unnecessary kernel modules (which for a lot of people, is all of them).
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