Custom Kernel Target Ignored

Erich Dollansky erichfreebsdlist at ovitrap.com
Sun Feb 26 09:26:10 UTC 2012


Hi,

On Sunday 26 February 2012 15:10:16 Carolyn Longfoot wrote:
> 
> When I start
> cd /usr/src
> make buildkernel KERNELCONF=MYKERNEL
> 
> then the process start and gives
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> >>> Kernel build for GENERIC started on Sat Feb 25 10:59:25 EST 2012

I do not know where the word GENERIC is taken from. Maybe from you configuration file?

> Even though my config file has
> ident MYKERNEL
> 
Ok, excluded then.

> I checked and there are no rogue versions of MYKERNEL (like a straight copy from GENERIC) and it exists in
> /usr/src/sys/amd64/conf
> 
> I'm probably missing something really simple here, why would 'make' go for GENERIC instead of my custom config?
> This is 9.0 RELEASE.
> 
 make buildkernel KERNCONF=AsusAMD620

is what I do.

Erich


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