Yeah thats the thing, I guess I should actually paste the error and the sequence. I'll do that when I get home.
Cheers! On Sun, 6 Mar 2005 12:19:33 -0800, Kent Stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sunday 06 March 2005 12:01 pm, gabriel wrote: > > Yep, I know enoguh to read through the handbook, the problem lies in > > the fact that if I use make buildkernel KERNCONF=MYKERNEL I get a > > stop error which says I have to buildworld first (even though I have > > before this step). Thats the reason for the question. But thanks > > anyway > > Ah, you didn't say that. If you cvsup, you have to do the buildworld > first. You need to figure out why buildkernel can't find the obj files > in /usr/obj. If you already have a current installed world with a > generic kernel, you can use the config MYKERNEL way of building a new > kernel. > > Kent > > > > > Cheers! > > > > On Sun, 6 Mar 2005 11:59:55 -0800, Kent Stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > On Sunday 06 March 2005 11:17 am, gabriel wrote: > > > > Alright so when upgrading to 5.3 from 5.2 I cvsuped the source > > > > which obviously got GENERIC overwritten. My question is, besides > > > > the instructions on /usr/src/Makefile(?) is there another way to > > > > update the source and be able to specify a custom kernel? > > > > > > There is a whole chapter on configuring your own kernel. They show > > > you how to cp GENERIC to your own name and then use it. See > > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/kernelcon > > >fig.html > > > > > > They show you both the config way and the new build[install]kernel > > > way of maintaing your kernel. I log everything and have the > > > individual commands in shell scripts so that a mistake won't do > > > something unexpected. > > > > > > Kent > > > > > > > Cheers! > > > > > > -- > > > Kent Stewart > > > Richland, WA > > > > > > http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html > > -- > Kent Stewart > Richland, WA > > http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html > -- gabriel, Member of: FreeBSD-Announce FreeBSD-Hardware FreeBSD-Multimedia FreeBSD-questions _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"