Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2007 19:07:02 +0200 From: Pietro Cerutti <gahr@gahr.ch> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: tundra@tundraware.com Subject: Re: Repopulating the GENERIC kernel Message-ID: <467FF636.6060708@gahr.ch> In-Reply-To: <467FEE86.5020601@tundraware.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] Tim Daneliuk wrote: > I have a production 6.2 STABLE machine w/something like this in /etc/make.conf: > > KERNCONF=MYKERN SMP GENERIC > > When I do a 'make kernel', as I understand it, all three kernels get *build* but only > MYKERN actually gets installed. > > So ... how do I get the latest version of GENERIC (that I just compiled per the above) > "installed" into /boot *without* it actually being the active kernel. IOW, I want > my kernel build to *install* MYKERN as the active kernel and refresh GENERIC just in > case I need it to recover a failed boot... try with make buildkernel make installkernel KERNCONF=GENERIC INSTKERNNAME=GENERIC make installkernel KERNCONF=SMP INSTKERNNAME=SMP make installkernel KERNCONF=MYKERN INSTKERNNAME=MYKERN then set the name of the kernel that you want to boot off in /boot/loader.conf, as kernel=MYKERN I don't know if there's an automatized way to perform the same... Hope this helps, > TIA, -- Pietro Cerutti PGP Public Key: http://gahr.ch/pgp [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFGf/Y7wMJqmJVx944RCmofAJ4/efuOy8fCWU2fl3PKOzZQ5jlgJQCcCSah SPK6roDPw+rViJ+8YEqR/S4= =+drY -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----home | help
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