Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:32:48 +1000 From: August Simonelli <augusts@gmail.com> To: Nathan Kinkade <nkinkade@ub.edu.bz> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: uname -v shows no difference after buildkernel and installkernel etc Message-ID: <46fa40c104082415322575cdc1@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20040824143236.GM3767@gentoo-npk.bmp.ub> References: <46fa40c104082403205419fd65@mail.gmail.com> <20040824143236.GM3767@gentoo-npk.bmp.ub>
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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
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