Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2000 17:01:17 +0100 From: Dominic Mitchell <hdm@mistral.co.uk> To: Matt Heckaman <matt@ARPA.MAIL.NET> Cc: Chan Tur Wei <twchan@singnet.com.sg>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, "H . S . YOON" <tsoi@xocah.dhs.org> Subject: Re: succeed. -_-;; Message-ID: <20000801170117.A97854@bizboz.mistral.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0008011141160.7005-100000@epsilon.lucida.qc.ca>; from matt@ARPA.MAIL.NET on Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 11:42:48AM -0400 References: <4.3.1.2.20000801232908.00ae46f0@zaapth> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0008011141160.7005-100000@epsilon.lucida.qc.ca>
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On Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 11:42:48AM -0400, Matt Heckaman wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Tue, 1 Aug 2000, Chan Tur Wei wrote: > ... > : "make installkernel" simply copies the built kernel into /MYKERNEL, > : and so those marked lines above are needed to (a) zap the old kernel > : away (actually, just renamed as /kernel.old) and then (b) copy the new > : kernel in. > : > : If you didn't do those steps, you'll simply be running the OLD kernel > : which in most cases will be the GENERIC or worse yet, your old 3.x > : kernel. > > Or... > > edit /boot/load.conf > > - - kernel="/kernel" > + kernel="/MYKERNEL" > > I'm tempted to write a 'make replacekernel' target that does things like > that automated, would definately help out :) It should just be a case of adding it to /boot/loader.conf as it will overwrite the default in /boot/defaults/loader.conf. This should probably be done as part of "installkernel". -Dom To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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