Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2002 10:41:05 -0400 From: "Tony Sim" <y2s82@hotmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: help, my computer would not make kernel Message-ID: <F194jvpN7wRjIHBchZ00001e923@hotmail.com>
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hi, i'm a complete newbie who have decided to build his own kernel for his computer. i've been looking through the handbook provided on www.freebsd.org. I've been trying to build a kernel for my computer so that i could include sound and perhaps other functions that were left out in generic kernel. But, when i type in "make buildkernel KERNCONF=MYKERNEL", it would function for awhile, then says that there was an error and aborts the process. so, i tried the traditional way, and i found out that "make depend" functions w/out an error, while the following "make" functions creates an error. i do not understand the cause nor the error. What is goin on? I've been speculating reasons, but i've come up with only one so far. I've used the cd iso image from the web to create 4 cd's. at the similar timeline, i've also created cd for other operating system. while trying to install the other operating system in other computer, i've found out that some of its files r corrupted. it wasn't the fault of the iso because the same file in iso had no flaws. so i'm thinking that the burning process wasn't as good as i thought it was. However, could freebsd be installed with corrupted files? could this be the reason why my "make" commands malfunction? i did use "make" or "make install" for installing various other packages (though some of them wouldn't work due to sound or graphcal reasons... one of the important reasons why i want my kernel) and... one more question... how do i get OpenGL support? is that has to do w/ kernel as well? or is it a port that requires an installation? and (sorry, one more question) I've found out that i could load my soundcard using "kldload". Though i'm yet to see if it truely works, (i do not have any files in the computer that makes sound...) well, thanx for reading this far, i wish you all a great day _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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