Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 12:41:48 -0600 From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> To: Damien Tougas <damien@carroll.com> Cc: Max Khon <fjoe@iclub.nsu.ru>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: remote 3.5 -> 4.1-STABLE source upgrade (updated) Message-ID: <200009131841.MAA89882@harmony.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 12 Sep 2000 09:34:19 EDT." <20000912093419.B29216@carroll.com> References: <20000912093419.B29216@carroll.com> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0009111716430.53288-100000@iclub.nsu.ru>
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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
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