building the 5.1 kernel

[Andrew]

Thanks for the reply

Reply to your comments...

MINIBSD - I am presently running regular ole freebsd 5.1. I eventually 
plan to rebuild the OS for an application. For now it is vanilla flavor 
freebsd.

GENERIC - Agreed if no changes were made the kernel doesn't have to be 
rebuilt. I used the unchanged GENERIC file to verify the kernel would 
build before I started making changes. It insures all the files/scripts 
are in place.

Alternative build process:
I tried it that way as well. Got the same errors.

Hope it helps
Andrew

On Sep 1, 2004, at 7:59 AM, Adam Smith wrote:

> 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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