On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 04:41:03PM -0600, Brett Glass wrote: > At 03:15 PM 4/30/2013, Glen Barber wrote: > > >Let's start from the beginning. What is the name of your custom kernel? > > The file name of the compiled kernel? The file name of the configuration file? > Or the identification string within the kernel? >
Yes. (All of them.) > The file name is, of course, /boot/kernel/kernel. It's built without > modules, so > it's the only file in the directory /boot/kernel. > > The configuration file is at /sys/amd64/conf/GATEWAY. > > The identification string within the kernel is GATEWAY. > > I am not sure what you're driving at here, though, so please explain. > What I was getting at is seeing if you had a custom kernel called GENERIC, despite the vast amounts of documentation noting that GENERIC should _not_ be modified to customize the kernel. So, since I know you're not new to FreeBSD, if you feel there is a bug somewhere, please file a PR. I disagree that there is a problem, however, since users building a custom kernel should _not_ use freebsd-update(8) for kernel upgrades. Glen
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