Date: Mon, 02 Jan 2006 17:09:20 +0000 From: Crispy Beef <crispy.beef@ntlworld.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Kernel Compilation... Message-ID: <43B95E40.6010002@ntlworld.com> In-Reply-To: <20060102164348.62758.qmail@web86905.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> References: <20060102164348.62758.qmail@web86905.mail.ukl.yahoo.com>
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Adam Nealis wrote: > --- Crispy Beef <crispy.beef@ntlworld.com> wrote: > > >>Hi All, >> >>Just joined this list. The last time I used FreeBSD was with 4.6-RELEASE, so >>a while ago now. I have just installed 6.0-RELEASE on my old laptop and have >>been configuring the system, am onto the kernel at the moment, have followed >>the traditional method in the FreeBSD handbook. All works fine (make depends) > > > Yesterday I installed 6.0-RELEASE from ISO, then used cvsup to upgrade > to 6.0-STABLE. I followed the steps given in /usr/src/Makefile: > > 1. `cd /usr/src' (or to the directory containing your source tree). > 2. `make buildworld' > 3. `make buildkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE' (default is GENERIC). > 4. `make installkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE' (default is GENERIC). > 5. `reboot' (in single user mode: boot -s from the loader prompt). > 6. `mergemaster -p' > 7. `make installworld' > 8. `mergemaster' > 9. `reboot' > > Is this what you did? Can youprovide the precise steps you followed? > > Here's what I did: 1. Install from CD (6.0-RELEASE) 2. Got latest kernel src with sysinstall 3. cd /usr/src/sys/i386/conf 4. Created my own config file (LAPTOP) 5. Did a /usr/sbin/config LAPTOP 6. Moved into compile directory (/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/LAPTOP) 7. Did 'make depend' 8. make At this point it failed... This machine has run Linux for the past few months compiling various things.
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