From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Mar 6 20:21:42 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F45516A4CE for ; Sun, 6 Mar 2005 20:21:42 +0000 (GMT) Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.202]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0BC5A43D4C for ; Sun, 6 Mar 2005 20:21:42 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from normal1.lists@gmail.com) Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 69so1047170wri for ; Sun, 06 Mar 2005 12:21:41 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:references; b=Mu5LzP4TmUuGufv8rTyzjV4xn2IcUbdangb0EfTGIIIu+bqRluZNIkiJinrR2bavZXHFhhR5StMbGa/k7/DbmlDXXEYUpbBKqA24SWMCh4Vfqbs6UTyOn/JH9pnP41gsaEAGpP+t2JuTQ4cZZShfp51VmtkO563lHbzwGDAn5i0= Received: by 10.54.27.51 with SMTP id a51mr221714wra; Sun, 06 Mar 2005 12:21:41 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.54.2.45 with HTTP; Sun, 6 Mar 2005 12:21:41 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Sun, 6 Mar 2005 12:21:41 -0800 From: gabriel To: Kent Stewart In-Reply-To: <200503061219.33249.kstewart@owt.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <200503061159.56088.kstewart@owt.com> <200503061219.33249.kstewart@owt.com> cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 5.3 and building world X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: gabriel List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 06 Mar 2005 20:21:42 -0000 Yeah thats the thing, I guess I should actually paste the error and the sequence. I'll do that when I get home. Cheers! On Sun, 6 Mar 2005 12:19:33 -0800, Kent Stewart wrote: > On Sunday 06 March 2005 12:01 pm, gabriel wrote: > > 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 > > Ah, you didn't say that. If you cvsup, you have to do the buildworld > first. You need to figure out why buildkernel can't find the obj files > in /usr/obj. If you already have a current installed world with a > generic kernel, you can use the config MYKERNEL way of building a new > kernel. > > Kent > > > > > Cheers! > > > > On Sun, 6 Mar 2005 11:59:55 -0800, Kent Stewart > 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/kernelcon > > >fig.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 > > -- > Kent Stewart > Richland, WA > > http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html > -- gabriel, Member of: FreeBSD-Announce FreeBSD-Hardware FreeBSD-Multimedia FreeBSD-questions