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From: August Simonelli <augusts@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: uname -v shows no difference after buildkernel and
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> > 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


I followed the example in 8.3:

# cd /usr/src/sys/i386/conf
# mkdir /root/kernels
# cp GENERIC /root/kernels/MYKERNEL   
# ln -s /root/kernels/MYKERNEL

so now I have the following symlink:

/usr/src/sys/i386/conf/MYCUSTOM -> /root/kernels/MYCUSTOM

and I built and installed with that as my KERNCONF value. I do still
have GENERIC sitting in that directory. Does it use GENERIC first by
default?

Thanks again,

august