From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Aug 21 22:54:52 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.uniserve.com (mail2.uniserve.com [204.244.156.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AEEFE37B424 for ; Mon, 21 Aug 2000 22:54:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from shell.uniserve.ca ([204.244.186.218]) by mail2.uniserve.com with esmtp (Exim 3.13 #1) id 13R716-0003nS-00; Mon, 21 Aug 2000 22:54:32 -0700 Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 22:54:26 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom X-Sender: tom@shell.uniserve.ca To: Erich Zigler Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New Kernel In-Reply-To: <20000822004551.A78949@superhero.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 22 Aug 2000, Erich Zigler wrote: > first time on a *BSD distribution. This was a fresh install of 4.1 so I had > him install the sources from the CD he installed from. I then had him > configure his kernel and try to compile it. Tons of errors. (Machine was not Without a complete description of what you did, your report isn't very useful. It should be obvious that kernels are buildable from the source in a release, as how could your system boot if a kernel could not be built? Obviously, your kernel config file is broken (try with an unmodified GENERIC first), or the way you built the kernel is wrong. Tom Uniserve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message