Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2003 23:27:16 -0500 From: William O'Higgins <william.ohiggins@utoronto.ca> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: Steve Bertrand <iaccounts@northnetworks.ca> Subject: Re: config(8) out of sync with source Message-ID: <20031204042716.GA68616@sillyrabbi.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <20031204041819.GB73527@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <20031202043933.GB16782@sillyrabbi.dyndns.org> <1070340909.404.12.camel@ptp.northnetworks.ca> <20031204035800.GA68444@sillyrabbi.dyndns.org> <20031204041819.GB73527@xor.obsecurity.org>
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>> >> Your version of config(8) is out of sync with your kernel source. >> > >> >Did you follow the procedure out of the handbook? >> > >> ># cvsup >> ># make buildworld >> ># cd /usr/src >> ># make buildkernel KERNCONF=MYKERNEL >> ># make installkernel KERNCONF=MYKERNEL >> ># make installworld >> >> I hadn't used that method, because I was unsure of the results, and the >> procedure in the Handbook is more extensive than I had time for. >> >> My reticence was well founded, since when I followed the above procedure >> it rendered the computer non-bootable. > >If you followed the above steps and everything completed successfully >then that should not occur, but without more details it's impossible >to tell what went wrong on your system. The above steps did not complete successfully. Rather a lot seemed to go wrong. Since there has been a format and reinstall since then, there is little value in diagnostics. Thanks though. -- yours, William
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