Kernel Build errors

Sean McNeil sean at mcneil.com
Thu Dec 2 13:08:40 PST 2004


On Thu, 2004-12-02 at 15:58 -0500, Egor Dmitrenkov wrote:
> > On Thu, 2004-12-02 at 15:38 -0500, Egor Dmitrenkov wrote:
> > > Please, tell me what should I exactly do... And please don't 
> > > forget to "cc" me, I'm not yet subscribed to this list.
> > > Thanks in advance.
> > 
> > Like I said, it is tricky to build an amd64 kernel from an i386
> > installation and then upgrade your computer.  If all you want to do is
> > build the kernel (and not install it), then the
> > 
> > make TARGET_ARCH=amd64 buildworld buildkernel
> > 
> 
> Of course I want to install new kernel too.
> 
> > thing should work.  Otherwise, the best thing to do is to install an
> > amd64 base from some place like
> > 
> > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ISO-IMAGES-amd64/5.3/
> >
>  
> Is that means that I can't build and install kernel myself even from 2 DVD set?

Of course you can install the kernel yourself.  You have to start with
an amd64 installation, however, and it looks like you have an i386
install on that machine.

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