From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 25 01:08:25 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BDA4516A4CE for ; Wed, 25 Aug 2004 01:08:25 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mproxy.gmail.com (rproxy.gmail.com [64.233.170.197]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D2D0943D58 for ; Wed, 25 Aug 2004 01:08:21 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from augusts@gmail.com) Received: by mproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 73so78594rnk for ; Tue, 24 Aug 2004 18:08:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.38.92.30 with SMTP id p30mr1724784rnb; Tue, 24 Aug 2004 18:08:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.38.86.32 with HTTP; Tue, 24 Aug 2004 18:08:21 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <46fa40c10408241808291c7a39@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 11:08:21 +1000 From: August Simonelli To: Nathan Kinkade In-Reply-To: <20040824230642.GR3767@gentoo-npk.bmp.ub> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <46fa40c104082403205419fd65@mail.gmail.com> <20040824143236.GM3767@gentoo-npk.bmp.ub> <46fa40c104082415322575cdc1@mail.gmail.com> <20040824230642.GR3767@gentoo-npk.bmp.ub> cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: uname -v shows no difference after buildkernel and installkernel etc X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: August Simonelli List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 01:08:25 -0000 > > I apologize, when you said: > > "... did a custom kernel (placing in /root/kernels ..." > > I took it too literally, thinking that for some odd reason you had put > the actual built (binary) kernel into /root/kernels and were symlinking > from /boot/kernel to that directory, as opposed to simply putting the > kernel config file there. However, is it just a typing mistake that you > say you link to MYKERNEL, but you say the actual links points to Nah, just me being sloppy in my syntax; I got the names right (luckily) during the actual build (or did i ... interesting ...). > MYCUSTOM? Also, what does an `ls -l /boot/kernel/kernel` reveal? Does > the modification time coincide with the time you actually built your > custom kernel? 94214 -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 5940286 Feb 24 2004 /boot/kernel/kernel So it's the old one ... now, this is good, because on my other test system the kernel date is correct and uname -v is correct ... so, i've done something wrong and am gonna try it again ... i'm doing it at work and probably too distracted by my annoying users! :-) thanks for you help ... wish me luck on my second attempt! august