FreeBSD 5.1 -RELEASE: unknown option "MAXUSERS"

Greg J. xcas at cox.net
Sat Jul 19 08:15:01 PDT 2003


On Sat, 19 Jul 2003 08:39:30 -0600
Joe Warner <rootman22 at comcast.net> wrote:

> Hi,
>  
> I'm running FreeBSD 5.1 -RELEASE and I'm getting the error in the
> subject after attempting to add a new option to my custom kernel. 
>  
> I'm trying to add "options USER_LDT" so I can install the new Nvidia
> drivers but when I issue:
>  
>  /usr/sbin/config CUSTOM_KERNEL 
>  
>  ..I get:
>  
>  custom_kernel: unknown option "MAXUSERS"
>  
>  If I issue:
>  
>  cd /usr/src
>  
>  make buildkernel KERNCONF=CUSTOM_KERNEL
>  
>  ..I get:
>  
>  make: don't know how to make buildkernel. Stop
>  
> I was able to create a custom kernel and compile it successfully after
> I installed 5.1 so what gives?
>  
> I've run cvsup a couple of times using the RELENG_5 tag in my supfile
> but it never pulls down any source and I assume this is because there
> isn't a STABLE branch for 5.x yet.
>  
> Can someone help?
>  
> Thanks
I replied to your post on bsdforums.org..
http://www.bsdforums.org/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=12302
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