Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 12:00:28 -0600 From: jpaetzel@hutchtel.net To: "Brent" <bierblb@netins.net>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, Tim McMillen <timcm@umich.edu> Subject: Re: Installworld (HELP!!) Message-ID: <3A6D725C.32732.2B6E2B@localhost> In-Reply-To: <01012310234906.12411@tim.elnsng1.mi.home.com> References: <004d01c08548$5c3b3ee0$6100000a@vladsempire.net>
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> > > > Someone help me out if I have my head stuck firmly up my nether > > regions, but from Brent's first post it isn't clear to me whether he > > did a make world. > > Read chapter 19 of the handbook again. > Make world is the overall make target. It was split up into make > buildworld and make installworld, because install world can be > dangerous on a multiuser machine. So dropping down to single user to > do installworld results in less downtime than doing the whole thing in > single user mode. > > > > > After updating the sources the following three things need to be > > done: > > > > #make world > > You are mixing and matching build targets. > > > #make buildworld KERNEL=MYKERNEL > > #make installworld KERNEL=MYKERNEL > > These are incorrect. For rebuilding a kernel after updating sources > and a build world, the correct commands are: > # cd /usr/src > # make buildkernel KERNEL=MYKERNEL > # make installkernel KERNEL=MYKERNEL > > These are from chapter 7 of the handboook. > > > > This sequence DOES compile the kernel, does it not? Please let me > > know if I am mistaken. > > It does if you specify the buildkernel/installkernel targets. You > were close, just the wrong targets. > > > I used to think that I knew what was going > > on, but after the recent discussion of the different ways to compile > > a new kernel, I am not sure anymore. > > The only confusion is that there are two methods of building the > kernel. One is used when the source tree has not been updated, the > other is used when it has. That is written in the appropriate section > in chapter 7, but many people miss it. > > Tim > > > Thanks for the reply. I think that I know why my system got hosed up the other day now. That's what I get for going from memory on something that I haven't done very much. Josh To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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