From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Mar 2 1:52:43 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix, from userid 664) id 78B6B37B719; Fri, 2 Mar 2001 01:52:41 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2001 01:52:41 -0800 From: David O'Brien To: Andrew Hesford Cc: FreeBSD-stable Subject: Re: KERNCONF instead of KERNEL? Message-ID: <20010302015241.A87450@hub.freebsd.org> Reply-To: obrien@freebsd.org References: <3A9E69E7.E4B354DE@magpage.com>; <3A9E69E7.E4B354DE@magpage.com> <20010301101941.C29805@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> <20010301124330.A27288@cec.wustl.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010301124330.A27288@cec.wustl.edu>; from ajh3@chmod.ath.cx on Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 12:43:30PM -0600 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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