From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Apr 25 9:20:39 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from orion.ac.hmc.edu (Orion.AC.HMC.Edu [134.173.32.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD7E437BE1A; Tue, 25 Apr 2000 09:20:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brdavis@orion.ac.hmc.edu) Received: (from brdavis@localhost) by orion.ac.hmc.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA22904; Tue, 25 Apr 2000 09:20:34 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 09:20:34 -0700 From: Brooks Davis To: Jukka Simila Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, Ryan Davis Subject: Re: 3.4S -> 4.0S botched, can't build anything now Message-ID: <20000425092034.A19838@orion.ac.hmc.edu> References: <20000424221426.A2314@orion.ac.hmc.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre4i In-Reply-To: ; from juksi@iname.com on Tue, Apr 25, 2000 at 10:43:38AM +0300 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Apr 25, 2000 at 10:43:38AM +0300, Jukka Simila wrote: > > On 25-Apr-00 Brooks Davis wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 24, 2000 at 09:53:46PM -0700, Ryan Davis wrote: > >> I followed the instructions in /usr/src/UPDATING as best I could, but > >> I still think it is conflicting on whether to build the kernel first > >> or not. Doesn't matter, trying to build the kernel first failed, > >> presumably because config has changed. > > I wasn't able to build a custom kernel; instead I built a GENERIC and that > worked. (After I had similar problems like you) I strongly recommend that anyone who doesn't require a custom kernel just to boot use GENERIC during the bootstrap and then recreate their custom kernel from GENERIC. That way you should pick up all the new things that have become defaults and get rid of obsolete, but working syntax like the removal of numbers from declerations of PCI devices (fxp0->fxp). -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message