Date: Sun, 6 Mar 2005 12:01:58 -0800 From: gabriel <normal1.lists@gmail.com> To: Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 5.3 and building world Message-ID: <efb858205030612017bb8c1f@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200503061159.56088.kstewart@owt.com> References: <efb8582050306111723586d1c@mail.gmail.com> <200503061159.56088.kstewart@owt.com>
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Yep, I know enoguh to read through the handbook, the problem lies in the fact that if I use make buildkernel KERNCONF=MYKERNEL I get a stop error which says I have to buildworld first (even though I have before this step). Thats the reason for the question. But thanks anyway Cheers! On Sun, 6 Mar 2005 11:59:55 -0800, Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com> wrote: > On Sunday 06 March 2005 11:17 am, gabriel wrote: > > Alright so when upgrading to 5.3 from 5.2 I cvsuped the source which > > obviously got GENERIC overwritten. My question is, besides the > > instructions on /usr/src/Makefile(?) is there another way to update > > the source and be able to specify a custom kernel? > > There is a whole chapter on configuring your own kernel. They show you > how to cp GENERIC to your own name and then use it. See > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/kernelconfig.html > > They show you both the config way and the new build[install]kernel way > of maintaing your kernel. I log everything and have the individual > commands in shell scripts so that a mistake won't do something > unexpected. > > Kent > > > > > Cheers! > > -- > Kent Stewart > Richland, WA > > http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html > -- gabriel, Member of: FreeBSD-Announce FreeBSD-Hardware FreeBSD-Multimedia FreeBSD-questions
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