Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2000 12:12:02 -0500 From: Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen@math.missouri.edu> To: Maxime Henrion <mhenrion@cybercable.fr> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: config and config -r Message-ID: <3971ECE2.6639D65A@math.missouri.edu> References: <3970AB23.F76B05CB@cybercable.fr>
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I had a similar problem once when I changed the processor on my motherboard from a 486 to a 586. I recompiled the kernel but I also got those page faults. I asked on these newsgroups and people suggested the processor was broken. Then I tried config -r (well I didn't know the -r option so I did the equivalent - deleting the compile/XXX directory) and then it worked great. I think that config -r has to be done very occasionally. I guess when it has to be done, it is obvious. Maxime Henrion wrote: > > Hello, > > .......... > > As I didn't want to recompile the whole stuff, I used a config and > not a config -r to build a new kernel, after having changed its > configuration. I removed several devices and I thought that won't cause > any problem, as the objects files for these devices won't be linked into > the kernel. > But after rebooting on this new kernel, I had a page fault before > any kernel message :/ Is there anything to check in order to know if I > can use a config instead of a config -r ? If using a config without the > -r option is dangerous, I think it shouldn't be the default. Is it the > case ? > -- Stephen Montgomery-Smith Department of Mathematics, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211 Phone 573-882-4540, fax 573-882-1869 http://www.math.missouri.edu/~stephen stephen@math.missouri.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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