From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 7 22:37:03 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [8.8.178.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC41CA3E for ; Fri, 7 Jun 2013 22:37:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from norman@khine.net) Received: from mail-oa0-x233.google.com (mail-oa0-x233.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4003:c02::233]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9CC7A18A5 for ; Fri, 7 Jun 2013 22:37:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-oa0-f51.google.com with SMTP id i18so1000033oag.24 for ; Fri, 07 Jun 2013 15:37:03 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=google.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :x-gm-message-state; bh=dq5vlf1pYjxfxtR++IapPJEoHg6SRfpBnE+DrvlpwWk=; b=hR5AQ9wKn/xOWdT8viGfpaGrO+ZrTu4fIREwXu9X/TngN+/xuyhnicmYPNrV5ZHv4e AaCK3hSXE4j0b1uz3KETOjehFXBr24XdQWKqOMNtUMDGgQjOx21kjJUjeb0c7cG0O2Tg EDML1C9M8sSFWV1sEs5jYYnQQYNHAxZTtp4YX1FQvlAaKWU7iP6WMrXD2R1/sk2beTjr zCWNgDJL++Xtfw4zAkaBaTOIA1ZEqTt04w23LKVCtAGTkvLChWKkIt2WtOhZ4AOsWgit UvjMp4X/Rz+kpFLwD/nDQiabWVgKZOQoCGTyYJ85Eq2N+IeGU0sAmRga2IEVW/K1WYMn xt0Q== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.60.15.201 with SMTP id z9mr512972oec.110.1370644623075; Fri, 07 Jun 2013 15:37:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.76.115.137 with HTTP; Fri, 7 Jun 2013 15:37:02 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 8 Jun 2013 00:37:02 +0200 Message-ID: Subject: custom kernel installation From: Norman Khine To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQkqiYE3sgJcKvb7Ad23YhNNFjlF6IdCNBsDiEDijokc1F5g9tOVAnVdTThyuhYYYTjZpX0x Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.14 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 07 Jun 2013 22:37:03 -0000 hello, i have a dedicated server from OVH and have updated freebsd to 9.1 and want to enable IPFW in the kernel as this is not enabled. the way i updated the system was to copy /boot/kernel.old to /boot/GENERIC then followed ch25 http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/updating-upgrading-freebsdupdate.htmlthis went well and the system is up to date. so i got the 9.1 sources and now in /usr/src/sys/amd64/conf i have a GENERIC file, but this is too generic, besides i don't have access to the physical box. what will be the correct way to include the IPFW to existing /boot/kernel is there a way to generate the GENERIC file from the existing loaded kernel? this is what # dmesg brings up http://pastebin.com/V8ZExNC8 do i need anything else? any advice much appreciated norman -- %>>> "".join( [ {'*':'@','^':'.'}.get(c,None) or chr(97+(ord(c)-83)%26) for c in ",adym,*)&uzq^zqf" ] )