building the 5.1 kernel

[Adam Smith]

On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 07:42:46AM -0400, Andrew said:
> I am trying to rebuild the 5.1 kernel. Using the Freebsd handbook as a 
> guide.
> 
> I am running freebsd 5.1 and as fyi have been  building suse and redhat 
> kernels for a while without problems. But this is my first time 
> building the freebsd kernel)
> 
> This is what I did.
> 
> cd /sys/i386/conf
> config GENERIC <-- no changes to the file then per the results of config

If no changes were made you don't need to recompile your kernel.

> cd ../compile/GENERIC
> then
> 
> make depend
> 
> then
> 
> make

All this stuff is not the right way around, at least for FreeBSD, and it
looks like you're running MiniBSD(?) of which I know nothing ;)

Anyway, this is what I do:

cd /usr/src/sys/i386/conf
cp GENERIC YOURNEWKERNELFILE
vi YOURNEWKERNELFILE
cd /usr/src
make buildkernel KERNCONF=YOURNEWKERNELFILE
make installkernel KERNCONF=YOURNEWKERNELFILE
reboot

Adam

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