correct instructions for building a 4.11 debugging kernel?

Toomas Aas toomas.aas at raad.tartu.ee
Wed May 18 05:36:16 PDT 2005


Dan Langille wrote:

> In particular, I'm not getting the kernel I promised by the docs:
> 
>   The make(1) process will have built two kernels. kernel and
>   kernel.debug.
 >
> I know I have a new kernel:
> 
> [root at bast:/] # ls -l /kernel*
> -r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  4077437 May 18 18:41 /kernel
> -r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  3559066 Sep 18  2001 /kernel.GENERIC
> -r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  3559066 Sep 18  2001 
> /kernel.GENERIC.original
> -r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  4033421 May  8 19:38 /kernel.nodebug
> -r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  3954128 Apr  4  2003 /kernel.pre.tcp.patch
> [root at bast:/] #
> 
> What am I missing?
> 

Are you sure you're looking at the right place? The kernel.debug won't 
be placed in / directory when you install the new kernel, it remains in 
/usr/src/sys/<arch>/compile/YOURKERNEL

-- 
Toomas Aas



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