Compiling a New Kernel

2002-10-11 Thread Jamie Heckford
Being one of these difficult people who like sticking to the old way of doing things, im still compiling my kernel the old way (config KERNELNAME; cd ../../KERNELNAME; make depend; make ; make install) :P I picked up a rumour on the mailing lists that this may no longer work in future/recent

Re: Compiling a New Kernel

2002-10-11 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 09:44:57AM +0100, Jamie Heckford wrote: Being one of these difficult people who like sticking to the old way of doing things, im still compiling my kernel the old way (config KERNELNAME; cd ../../KERNELNAME; make depend; make ; make install) :P I picked up a rumour

Re: Compiling a New Kernel

2002-10-11 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 09:44:57AM +0100, Jamie Heckford wrote: Being one of these difficult people who like sticking to the old way of doing things, im still compiling my kernel the old way (config KERNELNAME; cd ../../KERNELNAME; make depend; make ; make install) :P I picked up a rumour

Re: Compiling a New Kernel

2002-10-11 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 08:24:33AM -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote: When you build a new world (make buildworld), none of the new tools that have been built are installed. So any kernel built with this system will attempt to use the existing tools. If something critical to building the kernel,

Re: Compiling a New Kernel

2002-10-11 Thread Aragon Gouveia
| By Jamie Heckford [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [ 2002-10-11 11:13 +0200 ] Bizarre how could it be different/not work if you have cvsup'd all of your sources including sys/ tree at exactly the same time, and compile your kernel just after the installworld?

Re: Compiling a New Kernel

2002-10-11 Thread Phil Kernick
Aragon Gouveia wrote: Ideally you should build, install, and boot your new kernel before installing your new world. If your new kernel fails to boot for whatever reason, you can easily boot the old kernel and have a fully functional system again. If you installworld before verifying your new

Re: Compiling a New Kernel

2002-10-11 Thread ian j hart
Phil Kernick wrote: Aragon Gouveia wrote: Ideally you should build, install, and boot your new kernel before installing your new world. If your new kernel fails to boot for whatever reason, you can easily boot the old kernel and have a fully functional system again. If you installworld

Re: Compiling a New Kernel

2002-10-11 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Saturday, 12 October 2002 at 10:32:09 +0930, Phil Kernick wrote: Aragon Gouveia wrote: Ideally you should build, install, and boot your new kernel before installing your new world. If your new kernel fails to boot for whatever reason, you can easily boot the old kernel and have a fully