Re: Re: uname -v shows no difference after buildkernel and installkernel etc

2004-08-25 Thread August Simonelli
On Wed, 25 Aug 2004 13:32:19 +1000, August Simonelli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 24 Aug 2004 22:11:47 -0500, Donald J. O'Neill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: August, I've been following this thread today. It's very interesting. It appears to me, you mentioned your mistake in your first

Re: Re: uname -v shows no difference after buildkernel and installkernel etc

2004-08-25 Thread Nathan Kinkade
On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 04:40:50PM +1000, August Simonelli wrote: snip well, the rebuild has worked fine. i think my symlinking was indeed messed up. i followed everyone's advice and didn't use a symlink; I kept my custom config in the same location as GENERIC and just copied it elsewhere for

Re: Re: uname -v shows no difference after buildkernel and installkernel etc

2004-08-25 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2004-08-25 16:40, August Simonelli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: well, the rebuild has worked fine. i think my symlinking was indeed messed up. i followed everyone's advice and didn't use a symlink; I kept my custom config in the same location as GENERIC and just copied it elsewhere for backup

uname -v shows no difference after buildkernel and installkernel etc

2004-08-24 Thread August Simonelli
Hi all, I recently did the following: installed FreeBSD 5.2.1 from the iso cvsup'd the source (using tag=RELENG_5_2) followed section 19 of the handbook followed section 8 for the kernel rebuild and did a custom kernel (placing in /root/kernels and linking it, as per section 8.3) everything went

Re: uname -v shows no difference after buildkernel and installkernel etc

2004-08-24 Thread Nathan Kinkade
On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 08:20:51PM +1000, August Simonelli wrote: Hi all, I recently did the following: installed FreeBSD 5.2.1 from the iso cvsup'd the source (using tag=RELENG_5_2) followed section 19 of the handbook followed section 8 for the kernel rebuild and did a custom kernel

Re: uname -v shows no difference after buildkernel and installkernel etc

2004-08-24 Thread August Simonelli
August What does your symlink look like? So you put the newly built kernel in /root/kernels, then did something like?: # ln -s /root/kernels/mykernel /boot/kernel/kernel I followed the example in 8.3: # cd /usr/src/sys/i386/conf # mkdir /root/kernels # cp GENERIC

Re: uname -v shows no difference after buildkernel and installkernel etc

2004-08-24 Thread Nathan Kinkade
On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 08:32:48AM +1000, August Simonelli wrote: August What does your symlink look like? So you put the newly built kernel in /root/kernels, then did something like?: # ln -s /root/kernels/mykernel /boot/kernel/kernel I followed the example in 8.3: # cd

Re: uname -v shows no difference after buildkernel and installkernel etc

2004-08-24 Thread August Simonelli
I apologize, when you said: ... did a custom kernel (placing in /root/kernels ... I took it too literally, thinking that for some odd reason you had put the actual built (binary) kernel into /root/kernels and were symlinking from /boot/kernel to that directory, as opposed to simply

Re: uname -v shows no difference after buildkernel and installkernel etc

2004-08-24 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
August, I've been following this thread today. It's very interesting. It appears to me, you mentioned your mistake in your first post. did a mergemaster and didn't accept any changes (it was a fresh system) rebooted and logged in Without accepting those changes, you kept what you had. It

Re: Re: uname -v shows no difference after buildkernel and installkernel etc

2004-08-24 Thread August Simonelli
On Tue, 24 Aug 2004 22:11:47 -0500, Donald J. O'Neill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: August, I've been following this thread today. It's very interesting. It appears to me, you mentioned your mistake in your first post. did a mergemaster and didn't accept any changes (it was a fresh system)