5.3 Building Kernel/World

[Kris Kennaway]

On Sun, Jan 16, 2005 at 11:15:23PM -0800, Doug Hardie wrote:
> 
> On Jan 16, 2005, at 22:05, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> 
> >On Sun, Jan 16, 2005 at 09:51:13PM -0800, Doug Hardie wrote:
> >>The instructions for building world/kernel for 4.x are straight  
> >>forward
> >>and work fine.  However, I seem to have munged two 5.3 installations
> >>now.  I have been through all the UPDATING notes and the handbook and
> >>something is obviously not clear.
> >>
> >>The approach I used is:
> >>
> >>Clean install from 5.3 distribution.
> >>make buildworld
> >>create new config file LAFN
> >>make buildkernel KERNCONF=LAFN
> >>make installkernel KERNCONF=LAFN
> >>reboot
> >>make installworld
> >>reboot
> >>
> >>At that point It appeared I was using the LAFN kernel rather than
> >>generic.
> >>
> >>However, tonight I tried to make a new kernel.  NO go:
> >>ERROR: version of config(8) does not match kernel!
> >>config version = 500012, version required = 500013
> >>
> >>So I tried to reinstall the kernel:
> >>make installkernel KERNCONF=LAFN
> >>install -o root -g wheel -m 555   acpi.ko /boot/kernel
> >>install: acpi.ko: No such file or directory
> >>
> >>How are you supposed to build a new kernel that works?  How do I
> >>recover this?
> >
> >The only way I can think for this to happen is if your source tree was
> >inconsistent (i.e. not completely updated), or you updated your
> >sources after you did the installworld, and the kernel depends on the
> >newer version of config than the one you have built (in this case the
> >'safe' buildworld/buildkernel/installkernel method you used to begin
> >with should still work).
> >
> >Kris
> 
> Well, I tried makeworld again.  Dies in Step 3.  Reloaded all source  
> from the distribution
> CD.  makeworld dies in exactly the same place:

Really, this all points to something else having changed on your
system in the meantime.  Try

cd /usr/src
make cleandir
make cleandir
make buildworld

Kris
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