From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Sep 13 11:42:23 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5BA8E37B424 for ; Wed, 13 Sep 2000 11:42:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA66005; Wed, 13 Sep 2000 12:42:17 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.9.3/8.8.3) with ESMTP id MAA89882; Wed, 13 Sep 2000 12:41:48 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <200009131841.MAA89882@harmony.village.org> To: Damien Tougas Subject: Re: remote 3.5 -> 4.1-STABLE source upgrade (updated) Cc: Max Khon , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 12 Sep 2000 09:34:19 EDT." <20000912093419.B29216@carroll.com> References: <20000912093419.B29216@carroll.com> Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 12:41:48 -0600 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <20000912093419.B29216@carroll.com> Damien Tougas writes: : On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 05:21:37PM +0700, Max Khon wrote: : >2) make buildkernel KERNEL=GENERIC && make installkernel KERNEL=GENERIC : : Just curious, what is the purpose of doing this step before doing the : installworld? Is this done do make sure that the the kernel works ok : before installing the rest of the OS? Secondly, why would I want to : build the GENERIC kernel instead of my custom kernel? So that the binaries that are installed will run. There used to be a problem, which might now be fixed, that installworld would fail with the new binaries on the old kernel because of some signal changes between 3.x and 4.x. Your custom kernel is fine. Just make sure that you've updated it to reflect the 3.x -> 4.x GENERIC config changes. kernel config files aren't too portable across major releases. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message