Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2000 21:32:46 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: Greg Rumple <grumple@zaphon.llamas.net> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.0-STABLE question (aka, now I did it) Message-ID: <20000707213246.V25571@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <20000707212514.W630@zaphon.llamas.net>; from grumple@zaphon.llamas.net on Fri, Jul 07, 2000 at 09:25:14PM -0700 References: <20000707212514.W630@zaphon.llamas.net>
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* Greg Rumple <grumple@zaphon.llamas.net> [000707 21:27] wrote: > Well after seeing all the discussion on using make buildkernel > KERNEL=BLAH I decided I would try it too. :-) Just to see what it > does. Lo and behold, it builds my kernel. I than even did a make > installkernel KERNEL=BLAH (which actually installs my kernel as /BLAH > instead of /kernel). I even managed to boot it, and my system comes up > to the point of loading the linux kernel module for linux binary > compatibility and than it reboots. This went on for like 4 hours before > I walked back in to see what was going on. So it appears that there is > something quite different here than just doing a standard kernel > install, it also rebuilds and installs all the kernel modules. > > So is the linux.ko kernel module really broken? Are you sure you're actually booting your new kernel? It would seem that unless you modified the files in /boot to load your new kernel that you're old one would run and try to load the newer linux module and then blow up. -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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