Booting a new kernel after "make installkernel"

Bill Sorenson instructionset at gmail.com
Tue Apr 12 19:41:36 UTC 2016


I have had an issue with 10.3 on PowerPC that causes an unbootable
situation. Try 10.2-releng and if that works I have something for you to
try.
On Apr 12, 2016 2:36 PM, "Roger Leigh" <rleigh at codelibre.net> wrote:

> Hi folks,
>
> Sorry for the awfully naive question, but I've tried on several occasions
> to build world using the instructions here:
>   https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/makeworld.html
>
> They work fine on amd64, but on powerpc I'm always left with an unbootable
> system.  It looks like it can't load or boot the kernel. I've not
> customised anything; I've been trying to build 10.x-stable.
>
> My previous experience was on Debian which required running yaboot to
> update the Open Firmware bootloader configuration.  Are there any
> additional steps required on FreeBSD/powerpc which aren't in the generic
> instructions?
>
>
> Thanks all,
> Roger
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