kernel help

[Geoff Sweet]

Hey thanks James... it appears that that is what I am missing.  I am
fairly new to this kind of thing, so I guess I missed the buildworld and
installworld part.  That would also explain why the system tends to hang
when I run older userland apps.

So off I go a reading...

-Geoff

On Wed, 2004-10-06 at 23:37, James Pole wrote:
> Heya,
> 
> To remove the old kernel just delete /kernel and rename /kernel.old to 
> /kernel.
> 
> But note that you need to build the whole world (cd /usr/src/ && make 
> buildworld && make installworld) before the kernel will be in sync with 
> the rest of the system. If the kernel version is not in sync with the 
> version of the 'world' (ie the user-land applications such as SSH, etc) 
> then problems can occur.
> 
> The FreeBSD manual has more information on the correct prodecure for 
> upgrading a FreeBSD box.
> 
> Regards,
> James
> 
> On 7/10/2004, at 5:56 PM, lists at whootis.com wrote:
> 
> > So tonight I walked through compiling my kernel from 4.9-STABLE to 
> > 4.10-STABLE.
> > Compiling it went really well and all looked good until I reboot.  
> > When I
> > rebooted All seemed to go ok for a bit... but then commands started to 
> > hang and
> > disconnecting from SSH would leave my SSH session hung.  I reboot back 
> > into my
> > kernel.old and most everything is relatively happy again.
> >
> > But now my question.  How do I make this the default kernel again?  I 
> > obviously
> > don't want to use the new kernel because it has problems.  Can someone 
> > help me
> > with this?
> >
> > For reference sake I only used the GENERIC config and the only like I 
> > added to
> > it was the options line to add user quotas.
> >
> > THanks
> > Geoff Sweet
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