Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2001 01:52:41 -0800 From: David O'Brien <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Andrew Hesford <ajh3@chmod.ath.cx> Cc: FreeBSD-stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: KERNCONF instead of KERNEL? Message-ID: <20010302015241.A87450@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20010301124330.A27288@cec.wustl.edu>; from ajh3@chmod.ath.cx on Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 12:43:30PM -0600 References: <3A9E69E7.E4B354DE@magpage.com>; <3A9E69E7.E4B354DE@magpage.com> <20010301101941.C29805@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> <l03130301b6c44571fc83@[209.248.144.83]> <20010301124330.A27288@cec.wustl.edu>
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On Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 12:43:30PM -0600, Andrew Hesford wrote: > My method has not failed so far: > > make buildworld >& buildworld.log & > cd /sys/i386/conf && config -r HECUBUS #While buildworld runs > cd ../../compile/HECUBUS && make depend all install > #shutdown and boot to single user, using the old kernel that make > #install archived. > mount -a > make installworld You obviously were not around for the Binutils 2.9.1 -> 2.10.0 upgrade when I changed some of the ASM bits in the i386 kernel and 2.9.1 would no longer understand the sources. (or you're on an Alpha) The other place this will bite you is if the kernel needs a newer version of config(8) to build. We see this quite often in -CURRENT. Your method is *flawed* and *wrong*. Please listen to what those that know what they are talking about have to say. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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