From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 25 06:40:51 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 77D4016A4CE for ; Wed, 25 Aug 2004 06:40:51 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mproxy.gmail.com (rproxy.gmail.com [64.233.170.193]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1CCBE43D2F for ; Wed, 25 Aug 2004 06:40:51 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from augusts@gmail.com) Received: by mproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 75so86252rnl for ; Tue, 24 Aug 2004 23:40:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.38.72.60 with SMTP id u60mr653181rna; Tue, 24 Aug 2004 23:40:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.38.86.32 with HTTP; Tue, 24 Aug 2004 23:40:50 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <46fa40c104082423403daae4cd@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 16:40:50 +1000 From: August Simonelli To: "Donald J. O'Neill" In-Reply-To: <46fa40c104082420325a447633@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <46fa40c104082403205419fd65@mail.gmail.com> <20040824230642.GR3767@gentoo-npk.bmp.ub> <200408242211.47938.donaldj@ameritech.net> <46fa40c104082420325a447633@mail.gmail.com> cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Re: uname -v shows no difference after buildkernel and installkernel etc X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: August Simonelli List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 06:40:51 -0000 On Wed, 25 Aug 2004 13:32:19 +1000, August Simonelli wrote: > On Tue, 24 Aug 2004 22:11:47 -0500, Donald J. O'Neill > wrote: > > August, > > > > I've been following this thread today. It's very interesting. It appears > > to me, you mentioned your mistake in your first post. > > "did a mergemaster and didn't accept any changes (it was a fresh > > system) rebooted and logged in" > > Without accepting those changes, you kept what you had. It wasn't a > > This is what is confusing me about mergemaster. Isn't it "just" for > comparing and deciding which config files one wants kept? That is, if > I have a modifed pkgtools.conf or rc.conf or whatever I should be able > to merge it up with the newly rebuilt system (which would have fresh > versions of such files). Or I could just tell it to keep my old config > files cause they have all my modifications. I do get that the new conf > files may have changes we need, so merging is better. Now, why am i > babbling about this? Cause when doing the mergemaster on this system > my fingers got really fat and I'm not sure how I answered. Maybe this > lead to my problem. Would that cause a) the wrong kernel to be > installed or just b) the wrong kernel to be reported (ie did i screw > up the update of the file that stores the kernel details?). > > Also, just for clarification, it WAS a fresh system, so, in theory, > mergemaster would not have had any changes to make (except if it > updates some text string somwhere that is the basis for the uname -v, > as in my and b options above). > > Sorry if this is painfully ignorant; I'm learning slowly! :-) > > > fresh system and needed the information from mergemaster. If you didn't > > clear out /usr/obj, it might be possible to rerun mergemaster and > > accept the changes. I would keep MYCUSTOM somewhere other > > than /root/kernels. Personally, I use /home/save4rebuild, and keep a > > copy of everything else I think I might need. I've had to > > reinstall /, /var, /tmp, /usr, but I always manage to keep /home safe. > > This seems to be what most people are saying ... and i think it makes > more sense. I have officially adopted save4rebuild for my systems! :-) > > back to me rebuild (celeron 433 is a bit sloooow). well, the rebuild has worked fine. i think my symlinking was indeed messed up. i followed everyone's advice and didn't use a symlink; I kept my custom config in the same location as GENERIC and just copied it elsewhere for backup purposes. one last question for those tracking the this thread: can i now delete the custom kernel config file i created in /usr/src/sys/i386/src/ ? or does the system need it there to boot? i would guess not, more that the file is only used in building and installing ... thanks again for all the good advice ... august