Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2007 13:31:16 -0500 From: Patrick Baldwin <Patrick.Baldwin@studsvik.com> To: "Philip M. Gollucci" <pgollucci@riderway.com> Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Determining kernel? Message-ID: <47559CF4.6050605@studsvik.com> In-Reply-To: <475594E1.90702@riderway.com> References: <4755900F.3080906@studsvik.com> <475594E1.90702@riderway.com>
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Philip M. Gollucci wrote: > Patrick Baldwin wrote: >> I was reading through the handbook section on updating, as I'd >> like to update a FreeBSD 6.2 system. One of the things I noticed >> is that you need to specify what kernel you want in the KERNCONF >> line. Is there any way to get a running FreeBSD system to tell >> me what kernel is being used? > uname -a > FreeBSD philip.hq.rws 8.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 8.0-CURRENT #0: Tue Nov 6 > 16:28:12 EST 2007 > pgollucci@philip.hq.rws:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/RIDERWAY i386 > > Notice the path at the end. > OK, the path at the end for me is: /usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SMP i386 However, when I use uname -i as someone else suggested, it gives me: SMP-GENERIC So which do I substitute for MYKERNEL in the KERNCONF lines: make buildkernel KERNCONF=MYKERNEL make installkernel KERNCONF=MYKERNEL Thanks!
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