Re: custom kernel installation

2013-06-08 Thread Norman Khine
great, i managed to compile and install the custom kernel with IPFW kernel support as discussed, thanks for your help! i would like to optimise the kernel to be more specific to my hardware, here is a breakdown of what i have: https://gist.github.com/nkhine/fcbcbe36221dc39491f9 here is what is

Re: custom kernel installation

2013-06-07 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 8 Jun 2013 00:37:02 +0200, Norman Khine wrote: hello, i have a dedicated server from OVH and have updated freebsd to 9.1 and want to enable IPFW in the kernel as this is not enabled. Why not use the module for this? For many years now, you do not need a custom kernel if you want to use

Re: custom kernel installation

2013-06-07 Thread Norman Khine
thanks for the quick reply On Sat, Jun 8, 2013 at 12:54 AM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Sat, 8 Jun 2013 00:37:02 +0200, Norman Khine wrote: hello, i have a dedicated server from OVH and have updated freebsd to 9.1 and want to enable IPFW in the kernel as this is not enabled.

Re: custom kernel installation

2013-06-07 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 8 Jun 2013 01:17:35 +0200, Norman Khine wrote: thanks for the quick reply You're welcome. On Sat, Jun 8, 2013 at 12:54 AM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Sat, 8 Jun 2013 00:37:02 +0200, Norman Khine wrote: hello, i have a dedicated server from OVH and have updated

Re: Custom Kernel Target Ignored

2012-02-26 Thread Da Rock
On 02/26/12 18:10, Carolyn Longfoot wrote: When I start cd /usr/src make buildkernel KERNELCONF=MYKERNEL then the process start and gives -- Kernel build for GENERIC started on Sat Feb 25 10:59:25 EST 2012

Re: Custom Kernel Target Ignored

2012-02-26 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Sunday 26 February 2012 15:10:16 Carolyn Longfoot wrote: When I start cd /usr/src make buildkernel KERNELCONF=MYKERNEL then the process start and gives -- Kernel build for GENERIC started on Sat Feb 25 10:59:25 EST 2012

RE: Custom Kernel Target Ignored

2012-02-26 Thread Carolyn Longfoot
make buildkernel KERNCONF=AsusAMD620 is what I do. Erich ARGHHH... KERNCONF not KERNELCONF... scuse my blindness... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Custom Kernel Target Ignored

2012-02-26 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Sunday 26 February 2012 21:37:32 Carolyn Longfoot wrote: make buildkernel KERNCONF=AsusAMD620 is what I do. Erich ARGHHH... KERNCONF not KERNELCONF... scuse my blindness... this is what we are for. The simplest things are

Re: Custom Kernel Target Ignored

2012-02-26 Thread Damien Fleuriot
On 26 Feb 2012, at 15:37, Carolyn Longfoot c_longf...@hotmail.com wrote: make buildkernel KERNCONF=AsusAMD620 is what I do. Erich ARGHHH... KERNCONF not KERNELCONF... scuse my blindness... Pro tip, put it in your /etc/make.conf like so: KERNCONF=WHATEVERYOUSAID Then cd

Re: Custom Kernel to Memory Stick

2010-03-30 Thread Jay Hall
On Mar 29, 2010, at 6:30 PM, Aiza wrote: This is the procedure you want to follow. http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=11680 And for greater detail http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=11715 Thanks for the links. I will give them a try. Jay

Re: Custom Kernel to Memory Stick

2010-03-30 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Mon, 29 Mar 2010 10:49:08 -0500, Jay Hall jh...@socket.net wrote: Ladies and Gentlemen, I have been asked to explore the possibility of booting FreeBSD from a memory stick. This was not a problem; worked great when installed from the distribution CD. What would be the best way to get

Re: Custom Kernel to Memory Stick

2010-03-29 Thread Jay Hall
On Mar 29, 2010, at 10:49 AM, Jay Hall wrote: What would be the best way to get our custom configuration onto the memory stick? Ladies and Gentlemen, This is what I have done, but now I cannot mount the memory stick. I create an image of the s1a partition where the kernel I want to copy

Re: Custom Kernel to Memory Stick

2010-03-29 Thread Jay Hall
On Mar 29, 2010, at 10:49 AM, Jay Hall wrote: What would be the best way to get our custom configuration onto the memory stick? OK, I managed t get our custom configuration on to the memory stick using dump. After getting everything configured, what I thought was correctly, I am

Re: Custom Kernel to Memory Stick

2010-03-29 Thread Aiza
Jay Hall wrote: Ladies and Gentlemen, I have been asked to explore the possibility of booting FreeBSD from a memory stick. This was not a problem; worked great when installed from the distribution CD. What would be the best way to get our custom configuration onto the memory stick?

Re: custom kernel

2010-02-14 Thread b. f.
Derek Funk wrote: On 2/13/2010 5:31 AM, Erik Norgaard wrote: On 13/02/10 04:08, Derek Funk wrote: I am trying to find how to install a custom kernel at installation. I have found an option in sysinstall to select a kernel. How do I add my own to the options so I can select it? I think the

Re: custom kernel

2010-02-14 Thread Erik Norgaard
On 14/02/10 02:16, Derek Funk wrote: My kernel is basiclly is the generic kernel just with some added options and removed devices i don't have. I have built and installed many times after installation. I play around with this machine a lot and just want to be able to have my kernel installed at

Re: custom kernel

2010-02-13 Thread Erik Norgaard
On 13/02/10 04:08, Derek Funk wrote: I am trying to find how to install a custom kernel at installation. I have found an option in sysinstall to select a kernel. How do I add my own to the options so I can select it? I think the standard procedure is to install the generic kernel at

Re: custom kernel

2010-02-13 Thread Derek Funk
On 2/13/2010 5:31 AM, Erik Norgaard wrote: On 13/02/10 04:08, Derek Funk wrote: I am trying to find how to install a custom kernel at installation. I have found an option in sysinstall to select a kernel. How do I add my own to the options so I can select it? I think the standard procedure is

Re: custom kernel

2008-12-06 Thread Michael Powell
PJ wrote: [snip] there was another error in that kernel at the very beginning - the SCHEDULE_4BSD was SCHEDULE_UNO or something like that.. but it was commented out...perhaps these glitches happened through some kind of accidental typos in vi [snip] SCHED_4BSD is being replaced

Re: custom kernel

2008-12-05 Thread Patrick Lamaizière
Le Fri, 05 Dec 2008 20:10:19 -0500, PJ [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : linking kernel uvscom.o (.text+0x293): In function 'uvscom_attach' ; :undefined reference to 'ucom_attach' etc. *** Error code 1 did I do something wrong? system is still on and functioning but how do I make the custom

Re: custom kernel

2008-12-05 Thread Michael Powell
PJ wrote: [snip] Read carefully: uvscom.o (.text+0x293): In function 'uvscom_attach' ; :undefined reference to 'ucom_attach' etc. *** Error code 1 See further down at bottom. did I do something wrong? system is still on and functioning but how do I make the custom kernel? The

Re: custom kernel

2008-12-05 Thread PJ
Michael Powell wrote: PJ wrote: [snip] Read carefully: uvscom.o (.text+0x293): In function 'uvscom_attach' ; :undefined reference to 'ucom_attach' etc. *** Error code 1 See further down at bottom. did I do something wrong? system is still on and functioning but how do I make the

Re: custom kernel

2008-12-05 Thread Manolis Kiagias
PJ wrote: Michael Powell wrote: PJ wrote: [snip] Read carefully: uvscom.o (.text+0x293): In function 'uvscom_attach' ; :undefined reference to 'ucom_attach' etc. *** Error code 1 See further down at bottom. did I do something wrong? system is still on and functioning but how do

Re: Custom Kernel Problem

2008-09-21 Thread Mel
On Sunday 21 September 2008 03:50:36 Michael Gass wrote: Installed FreeBsd 7.0 a few weeks ago in a Pentium III with just 128 M of memory. Recently compiled a custom kernel. It seems to work ok, but dmesg gives the following at the end: Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/ad0s1a pid 438

RE: Custom Kernel Help!

2008-08-25 Thread enom-FBSD1
Read the handbook. It has section on customizing the kernel source explaining what you can comment out of the source. About adding one of the firewalls into the kernel, it's a waist of time. When you put the appropriate firewall statements in /etc/rc.conf the selected firewall module is

Re: custom kernel, make buildkernel and then?

2006-10-11 Thread Erik Norgaard
Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: Hello, Hope you can advise me. I have a FreeBSD 6.1 stable system for which I want to build a custom kernel. However, I am scared to death (almost ;) and just want to make sure I have it done the right way. I have in the past used supfile with ports-all option and

Re: custom kernel, make buildkernel and then?

2006-10-11 Thread Zbigniew Szalbot
Hello, On Wed, 11 Oct 2006, Erik Norgaard wrote: Yes, you can install the kernel. Applications don't live in kernelspace. If your kernel fails to boot you can boot the old kernel by in the loader menu go to a promt, unload the kernel and load kernel.old. Now here comes the funny part. When

Re: custom kernel, make buildkernel and then?

2006-10-11 Thread Garrett Cooper
Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: Hello, On Wed, 11 Oct 2006, Erik Norgaard wrote: Yes, you can install the kernel. Applications don't live in kernelspace. If your kernel fails to boot you can boot the old kernel by in the loader menu go to a promt, unload the kernel and load kernel.old. Now here

Re: custom kernel, make buildkernel and then?

2006-10-11 Thread Garrett Cooper
Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: Hello, Hope you can advise me. I have a FreeBSD 6.1 stable system for which I want to build a custom kernel. However, I am scared to death (almost ;) and just want to make sure I have it done the right way. I have in the past used supfile with ports-all option and

Re: custom kernel, make buildkernel and then?

2006-10-11 Thread Garrett Cooper
Garrett Cooper wrote: Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: Hello, On Wed, 11 Oct 2006, Erik Norgaard wrote: Yes, you can install the kernel. Applications don't live in kernelspace. If your kernel fails to boot you can boot the old kernel by in the loader menu go to a promt, unload the kernel and load

Re: custom kernel, make buildkernel and then?

2006-10-11 Thread Zbigniew Szalbot
Hello again, On Wed, 11 Oct 2006, Garrett Cooper wrote: Easier just to go ln -s /root/kernel/LISTS /usr/src/sys/[arch]/conf/ . -Garrett Err... omit that last period in the ln command. I just realized that could be misleading. Thank you Garrett - I did ln -s /root/kernel/LISTS

Re: custom kernel, make buildkernel and then?

2006-10-11 Thread Spiros Papadopoulos
Sorry, forgot to include the list On 11/10/06, Spiros Papadopoulos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, What i simply do is: 1. Enter the /usr/src/sys/*/conf directory 2. copy GENERIC to whatever name i wish (no new dirs, no links) 3. Alter the file to my needs 4. cd /usr/src 5. make buildkernel

Re: custom kernel, make buildkernel and then?

2006-10-11 Thread Garrett Cooper
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: Hello again, On Wed, 11 Oct 2006, Garrett Cooper wrote: Easier just to go ln -s /root/kernel/LISTS /usr/src/sys/[arch]/conf/ . -Garrett Err... omit that last period in the ln command. I just realized that could be

Re: custom kernel, make buildkernel and then?

2006-10-11 Thread Zbigniew Szalbot
Hi there again, On Wed, 11 Oct 2006, Garrett Cooper wrote: Running 'cd /usr/src/sys/i386/conf ls -l' yields...? total 56 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel372 Oct 28 2005 DEFAULTS -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 10337 May 1 02:15 GENERIC -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 1741 Jan 14 2005 GENERIC.hints

Re: custom kernel, make buildkernel and then?

2006-10-11 Thread Erik Norgaard
Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: I have in the past used supfile with ports-all option and couldn't build a custom kernel. Yesterday it dawned on me that I need sources for that, not ports. So I ran cvsup with src-all option. Now, I followed these steps: # cd /usr/src/sys/i386/conf # mkdir

Re: custom kernel, make buildkernel and then?

2006-10-11 Thread Zbigniew Szalbot
Hello, On Wed, 11 Oct 2006, Erik Norgaard wrote: The target directory for the build is /usr/obj, so in /usr/obj/usr/src/sys you can see what kernels have been built. And it seems none have? For I get this when I do ls I can see only boot directory and no kernels. Is it possible that the

Re: custom kernel, make buildkernel and then?

2006-10-11 Thread Erik Norgaard
Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: Hello, On Wed, 11 Oct 2006, Erik Norgaard wrote: The target directory for the build is /usr/obj, so in /usr/obj/usr/src/sys you can see what kernels have been built. And it seems none have? For I get this when I do ls I can see only boot directory and no kernels. Is

Re: custom kernel, make buildkernel and then?

2006-10-11 Thread Zbigniew Szalbot
Hello, On Wed, 11 Oct 2006, Spiros Papadopoulos wrote: Hi, What i simply do is: 1. Enter the /usr/src/sys/*/conf directory 2. copy GENERIC to whatever name i wish (no new dirs, no links) 3. Alter the file to my needs 4. cd /usr/src 5. make buildkernel KERNCONF='name' 6. make installkernel

Re: custom kernel, make buildkernel and then?

2006-10-11 Thread Harrison Peter CSA BIRKENHEAD
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 11:50:57 +0200 (CEST) From: Zbigniew Szalbot [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: custom kernel, make buildkernel and then? To: Erik Norgaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed

Re: custom kernel, make buildkernel and then?

2006-10-11 Thread Zbigniew Szalbot
Hello, On Wed, 11 Oct 2006, Harrison Peter CSA BIRKENHEAD wrote: This is the message I usually see at the end of building world (ie. following the command make buildworld). Are you sure you typed make buildkernel? Otherwise, that would explain why you don't see the kernel you built. I am

Re: Custom Kernel questions...

2006-04-22 Thread Daniel Bye
On Sat, Apr 22, 2006 at 04:52:45PM -0700, Andrew Carton wrote: While I am not exactly new to FreeBSD or other *nix variants, I choose to use FreeBSD because of its blazing performance, especially on older, slower machines. Yet, I also wish to strip that kernel to squeeze out every bit of

Re: Custom Kernel questions...

2006-04-22 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Sat, Apr 22, 2006 at 04:52:45PM -0700, Andrew Carton wrote: While I am not exactly new to FreeBSD or other *nix variants, I choose to use FreeBSD because of its blazing performance, especially on older, slower machines. Yet, I also wish to strip that kernel to squeeze out every bit of

Re: custom kernel file question

2006-04-20 Thread Eric Schuele
Jonathan Horne wrote: here is a silly one, which may deserve a chuckle from my peers :) what am i doing that zaps my custom kernel config file? i compiled a new one the day i built this box, but now i return to /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/, and my file isnt there anymore! Did you simply modify

Re: custom kernel file question

2006-04-20 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2006-04-20 14:01, Jonathan Horne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: here is a silly one, which may deserve a chuckle from my peers :) what am i doing that zaps my custom kernel config file? i compiled a new one the day i built this box, but now i return to /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/, and my file isnt

Re: custom kernel problem

2005-11-06 Thread Laslo Holifeld
Hi Thanx for reply LG, but ive managed to solve it (tonight..). The problem was caused by the options: options AUTO_EOI_1 options AUTO_EOI_2 ive #-ed em out and it worked;-) Now, i'm curious why did it happend... __ Yahoo!

Re: custom kernel problem

2005-11-04 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Laslo Holifeld [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have a problem running my custom kernel on 5.4 fbsd. It compiles and loads properly but during hardware setup I get following errors: ata0-master: FAILURE - ATA_IDENTIFY timed out ata1-master: FAILURE - ATAPI_IDENTIFY timed out Hire is my

Re: Custom kernel config questions for Linux user

2005-06-23 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I was wondering if anyone could provide me an answer to the following questions. Please keep in mind that by default I learned Unix on a Linux system, so... please no flames :(. 1) Is there any sort of configuration interface (ncurses, X, etc), or am I 'stuck' with 'manually configuring' a

Re Custom kernel config questions linux user

2005-06-23 Thread Daniel Gonzalez
Hello, I was wondering if anyone could provide me an answer to the following questions. Please keep in mind that by default I learned Unix on a Linux system, so... please no flames :(. I was a Slackware devotee for about 4 years and a SuSe user for 2 before moving to FreeBSD. Nothing wrong with

Re: Re Custom kernel config questions linux user

2005-06-23 Thread Subhro
On 6/23/2005 20:24, Daniel Gonzalez wrote: Hello, I was wondering if anyone could provide me an answer to the following questions. Please keep in mind that by default I learned Unix on a Linux system, so... please no flames :(. Flames??!! What for? Buddy we have better work to do than say My

Re: Custom kernel config questions for Linux user

2005-06-22 Thread Warren Block
On Wed, 22 Jun 2005, Garrett Cooper wrote: I was wondering if anyone could provide me an answer to the following questions. Please keep in mind that by default I learned Unix on a Linux system, so... please no flames :(. 1) Is there any sort of configuration interface (ncurses, X, etc), or

Re: Custom kernel config questions for Linux user

2005-06-22 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2005-06-22 18:04, Garrett Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I was wondering if anyone could provide me an answer to the following questions. Please keep in mind that by default I learned Unix on a Linux system, so... please no flames :(. That's ok. I was also a Linux user for a

Re: Custom Kernel Config

2005-06-16 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 03:18:29PM -0400, Alex McGeorge wrote: All, I recently tried to configure and compile my first custom Kernel. I followed the directions for this process in the FreeBSD handbook, I was able to resolve a few small bugs (enabling device miibus when I had an Ethernet

Re: Custom Kernel 'make depend' Failure

2005-01-19 Thread Christian Hiris
On Wednesday 19 January 2005 05:14, Scott C. MacCallum wrote: Greetings, I am running FreeBSD 5.3 Stable. I had been following the steps found in the handbook to make a custom kernel: /usr/sbin/config MYKERNEL cd ../compile/MYKERNEL make depend You run the old, traditional way to build

Re: Custom Kernel

2004-11-28 Thread Joshua Tinnin
On Saturday 27 November 2004 11:49 pm, Rem Roberti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Joshua Tinnin wrote: On Saturday 27 November 2004 11:27 pm, Rem Roberti [1][EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I sent this message to Joshua back channel, and realized that I should have also sent it to the group. Rem

Re: Custom Kernel

2004-11-28 Thread Rem Roberti
Okay, it turns out that I was editing the wrong file. Instead of editing the configuration file that was in the /etc/src/sys/i386/conf directory, I was editing the configuration file that I had redirected to a new directory, as indicated by the handbook. I guess I was under the impression

Re: Custom Kernel

2004-11-28 Thread Joshua Tinnin
fixed top-posting On Sunday 28 November 2004 01:25 am, Rem Roberti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rem Roberti wrote: Joshua Tinnin wrote: On Saturday 27 November 2004 11:27 pm, Rem Roberti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I sent this message to Joshua back channel, and realized that I should have also

Re: Custom Kernel

2004-11-28 Thread Joshua Tinnin
On Sunday 28 November 2004 01:41 am, Joshua Tinnin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When you ln -l /usr/src/sys/i386/conf you should see something like this: Of course, that was supposed to be ls -l ... - jt ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: Custom Kernel

2004-11-27 Thread Joshua Tinnin
On Saturday 27 November 2004 10:29 pm, Rem Roberti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Everyone, As a rank newbie I have been trying to install a custom kernel, and have attempted to follow the directions in the handbook. But I just can't get the thing to make. The handbook also says

Re: Custom Kernel

2004-11-27 Thread Hugh Ekeberg
I'm bit of a newbe myself and had the same problems. Finally I decided NOT to comment out those options in my copy of the GENERIC file which related to hardware options I don't have. So if you have been commenting out all those hardware options in the kernel configuration file for hardware you

re: Custom Kernel

2004-11-27 Thread Rem Roberti
I sent this message to Joshua back channel, and realized that I should have also sent it to the group. Rem Thanks, Joshua. Here's the requested stuff, starting with the output of uname -a: FreeBSD

Re: Custom Kernel

2004-11-27 Thread Joshua Tinnin
On Saturday 27 November 2004 11:27 pm, Rem Roberti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I sent this message to Joshua back channel, and realized that I should have also sent it to the group. Rem Thanks, Joshua. Here's the

Re: Custom Kernel

2004-11-27 Thread Rem Roberti
Joshua Tinnin wrote: On Saturday 27 November 2004 11:27 pm, Rem Roberti [1][EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I sent this message to Joshua back channel, and realized that I should have also sent it to the group. Rem Thanks,

Re: custom kernel

2004-02-23 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Feb 23, 2004 at 05:54:05PM -0700, RYAN vAN GINNEKEN wrote: Hello I use FreeBSD 4.9 Stable and am tring to compile a custom kernel but get the following error. Also i am running a Intel865glcl with a cleron 2.4 the board supports hyperthreading do the chip and operating system. You

Re: Custom kernel config for Dell PowerEdge 1750 w/RAID

2004-01-11 Thread Olaf Hoyer
On Thu, 8 Jan 2004, Eivind Hestnes wrote: Hi, Anyone out there with a complete custom kernel config for the Dell PowerEdge 1750 w/PERC4 RAID-controller (one of those pizzaboxes :-) Well, the GENERIC will work fine, just strip out the surplus bits of drivers ;-) You will need at least

Re: Custom kernel config for Dell PowerEdge 1750 w/RAID

2004-01-09 Thread Ernst de Haan
It all depends on what you need. You should really do the kernel config file yourself, but perhaps I can give you a hand. Attached is my kernel configuration file for a Dell PowerEdge 4500, also with PERC RAID controller. It's an SMP box, but I've commented out SMP in the config file. Note

Re: custom kernel configuration: make fails

2002-11-12 Thread Denis N. Peplin
On Monday 11 November 2002 21:24, Stefan Farrenkopf wrote: Hi there, I hope anybody can help me. I followed the Handbook to make a new kernel. The main interest for doing so is: I need to mount Netware volumes, etc. and I want to use my onboard SoundMax sound device. By going through I