Date: Sun, 02 Feb 2003 10:40:52 -0600 (CST) From: Conrad Sabatier <conrads@cox.net> To: Taylor Dondich <tdondich@majiknetworks.com> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: First time CURRENT user having problems with new boot loader install Message-ID: <XFMail.20030202104052.conrads@cox.net> In-Reply-To: <3E3CE249.8010409@majiknetworks.com>
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On 02-Feb-2003 Taylor Dondich wrote: > After reading src/UPDATING and attempting to follow the directions to > upgrade from 4.7-RELEASE to -CURRENT, I'm having some difficulty, after > successfully building world and building and installing the kernel, I > attempted to make install in src/sys/boot. I'm getting the following error: > > ((inappropriate text taken out)) > ====> i386/mbr > install -o root -g wheel -m 444 mbr /boot > install: mbr: No such file or directory > *** Error code 71 Do a simple make first, then a make install. > Sadly, I'm not experienced, this is my first CURRENT build, and I'm > hoping I researched enough of it, but if I'm missing something that's > documented, I'd love if someone pointed it out so I can further educate > myself. The source tree doesn't work like ports, where "make install" will do all the prerequisite steps first. If you say "make install" in /usr/src/*, you'd better have already built something! :-) -- Conrad Sabatier <conrads@cox.net> - "In Unix veritas" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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