From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 24 20:30:22 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id UAA20917 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 24 Sep 1997 20:30:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (gregl1.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id UAA20911 for ; Wed, 24 Sep 1997 20:30:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) id NAA27019; Thu, 25 Sep 1997 13:00:04 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19970925130003.40781@lemis.com> Date: Thu, 25 Sep 1997 13:00:03 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: DCMC Customer Liaison Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Kernel: Lost Configuration References: <199709250245.WAA20349@lists.dcro.dla.mil> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.81e In-Reply-To: <199709250245.WAA20349@lists.dcro.dla.mil>; from DCMC Customer Liaison on Wed, Sep 24, 1997 at 11:05:08PM -0400 Organisation: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8250 Fax: +61-8-8388-8250 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Fight-Spam-Now: http://www.cauce.org Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, Sep 24, 1997 at 11:05:08PM -0400, DCMC Customer Liaison wrote: > OK, I guess I still don't know what's going on. I had a working kernel > with GENERIC. Having made up a new kernel, the only things added were a > PS/2 mouse and a sound card. I made a new kernel without an error. > However, when I finished with it, I had lost all my users and configuration > files. What happened? Good question. I can't see that it has anything to do with the kernel build. > I can't do a make world because I'm running a minimal configuration with a > 326 Mb hard disk and there isn't room for all the sources. Why did this > happen and what do I do to correct/prevent it? Again, I'm sure that it didn't happen because of the kernel build. If you can show *exactly* what happened between the build and the discovery that you had lost your config files (which ones, for example), it would maybe help. But I'd suggest that you repeat it and see if it happens again. Greg