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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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