Date: 22 Jun 2002 13:21:43 +0100 From: Stacey Roberts <sroberts@dsl.pipex.com> To: Danny Braniss <danny@cs.huji.ac.il> Cc: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se>, Mark Rowlands <mark.rowlands@minmail.net>, FreeBSD-Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD-Stable <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: cvsup stable-supfile does not update GENERIC (and others) kernel? Message-ID: <1024748503.87383.38.camel@Demon.Strobe.org> In-Reply-To: <E17LjU1-0009iH-00@cse.cs.huji.ac.il> References: <E17LjU1-0009iH-00@cse.cs.huji.ac.il>
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--=-av1y1Q0ZJsmLmIy833+g Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sorry if I mis-understood. I also see in A Anderson's book FreeBSD - An Open Source Operating System for you Personal Computer, pg 341 step 5: "Type cd /sys/i386/conf and cp GENERIC MYKERN. Edit this new copy of GENERIC called MYKERN, making the same kind of changes described in the previous chapter... <snip> so it's best to start with a copy of the new GENERIC as a base rather than your old config file." She mentions / suggests here that there should be a new copy of GENERIC listed in /usr/src/sys/i386/conf for me to use for producing the new kernel in step 7:- make kernel KERNCONF=3DMYKERNEL make installkernel KERNCONF-MYKERN I can't see from the material I have before me that I am not making sense here., Again, if there is some glaringly stupid mistake (or presumption) that I am committing here, do let me know. I've been through UPDATING, and there's no mention of anything changing for the steps involved in ugrading a system. FYI, here's the uname -a info again: # uname -a FreeBSD <snip> 4.6-RC FreeBSD 4.6-RC #0: Sun May 26 11:20:25 BST 2002 <snip:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/THOR i386 #=20 The GENERIC in /usr/src/sys/i386/conf is dated as follows: # pwd /usr/src/sys/i386/conf # ls -la total 185 drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Jun 4 21:35 . drwxr-xr-x 11 root wheel 512 Feb 11 01:58 .. lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 19 Feb 11 12:35 BEAST -> /root/kernels/BEAST -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 9064 May 26 00:09 GENERIC -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 8931 Apr 26 23:48 GENERIC.orig lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 20 Feb 13 20:43 HAMMER -> /root/kernels/HAMMER -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 9177 May 7 00:09 IRON -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 9130 May 6 23:58 IRON.old -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 9123 Apr 27 10:49 IRON.orig -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 99850 May 26 00:09 LINT -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 9318 Jun 4 21:35 THOR -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 16000 Apr 30 23:23 lpt0 #=20 Hope to hear from you (and others) really soon. Stacey On Sat, 2002-06-22 at 12:55, Danny Braniss wrote: > /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/GENERIC does not get generated/compiled/etc, > it's just a file. >=20 > the GENERIC kernel gets cpmpiled/linked if you do a 'make kernel', and yo= u=20 > should look for it so: > cd /usr/src/sys; cd /usr/obj/`pwd`; cd sys/GENERIC > danny >=20 >=20 --=20 Stacey Roberts B.Sc. (HONS) Computer Science Network Systems Engineer --=-av1y1Q0ZJsmLmIy833+g Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sorry if I mis-understood. I also see in A Anderson's book FreeBSD - An Open Source Operating System for you Personal Computer, pg 341 step 5: "Type cd /sys/i386/conf and cp GENERIC MYKERN. Edit this new copy of GENERIC called MYKERN, making the same kind of changes described in the previous chapter... <snip> so it's best to start with a copy of the new GENERIC as a base rather than your old config file." She mentions / suggests here that there should be a new copy of GENERIC listed in /usr/src/sys/i386/conf for me to use for producing the new kernel in step 7:- make kernel KERNCONF=3DMYKERNEL make installkernel KERNCONF-MYKERN I can't see from the material I have before me that I am not making sense here., Again, if there is some glaringly stupid mistake (or presumption) that I am committing here, do let me know. I've been through UPDATING, and there's no mention of anything changing for the steps involved in ugrading a system. FYI, here's the uname -a info again: # uname -a FreeBSD <snip> 4.6-RC FreeBSD 4.6-RC #0: Sun May 26 11:20:25 BST 2002 <snip:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/THOR i386 #=20 The GENERIC in /usr/src/sys/i386/conf is dated as follows: # pwd /usr/src/sys/i386/conf # ls -la total 185 drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Jun 4 21:35 . drwxr-xr-x 11 root wheel 512 Feb 11 01:58 .. lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 19 Feb 11 12:35 BEAST -> /root/kernels/BEAST - -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 9064 May 26 00:09 GENERIC - -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 8931 Apr 26 23:48 GENERIC.orig lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 20 Feb 13 20:43 HAMMER -> /root/kernels/HAMMER - -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 9177 May 7 00:09 IRON - -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 9130 May 6 23:58 IRON.old - -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 9123 Apr 27 10:49 IRON.orig - -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 99850 May 26 00:09 LINT - -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 9318 Jun 4 21:35 THOR - -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 16000 Apr 30 23:23 lpt0 #=20 Hope to hear from you (and others) really soon. Stacey On Sat, 2002-06-22 at 12:55, Danny Braniss wrote: > /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/GENERIC does not get generated/compiled/etc, > it's just a file. >=20 > the GENERIC kernel gets cpmpiled/linked if you do a 'make kernel', and yo= u=20 > should look for it so: > cd /usr/src/sys; cd /usr/obj/`pwd`; cd sys/GENERIC > danny >=20 >=20 - --=20 Stacey Roberts B.Sc. (HONS) Computer Science Network Systems Engineer -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 6.5.8 iQA/AwUBPRRr1fdn4A8qiCO5EQJFAQCfdSX75yp1X4aKqvmZ6S3qeqwYzb4AoIun JXsPrO4yH5hv4htybw6u0D96 =ogfX -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-av1y1Q0ZJsmLmIy833+g-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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