5.3 rc2 kernel install problems

Aaron P. Martinez ml at proficuous.com
Mon Nov 1 08:12:30 PST 2004


I just got the new 5.3 rc2 cvsuped the sources (not much was updated
that i could see) and proceeded to do a make buildworld and make
buildkernel.  

When i tried to make installkernel  it got the following error. 

--------------------------------------------------------------
>>> Installing kernel
--------------------------------------------------------------
cd /usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC;  MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX=/usr/obj 
MACHINE_ARCH=i386  MACHINE=i386  CPUTYPE= 
GROFF_BIN_PATH=/usr/obj/usr/src/i386/legacy/usr/bin 
GROFF_FONT_PATH=/usr/obj/usr/src/i386/legacy/usr/share/groff_font 
GROFF_TMAC_PATH=/usr/obj/usr/src/i386/legacy/usr/share/tmac
PATH=/usr/obj/usr/src/i386/legacy/usr/sbin:/usr/obj/usr/src/i386/legacy/usr/bin:/usr/obj/usr/src/i386/legacy/usr/games:/usr/obj/usr/src/i386/usr/sbin:/usr/obj/usr/src/i386/usr/bin:/usr/obj/usr/src/i386/usr/games:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin  make KERNEL=kernel install
cd: can't cd to /usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC
*** Error code 2
 
Stop in /usr/src.
*** Error code 1
 
Stop in /usr/src.


I just created an empty GENERIC directory in /usr/obj/usr/src/sys/ but
then i get the following error:

--------------------------------------------------------------
>>> Installing kernel
--------------------------------------------------------------
cd /usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC;  MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX=/usr/obj 
MACHINE_ARCH=i386  MACHINE=i386  CPUTYPE= 
GROFF_BIN_PATH=/usr/obj/usr/src/i386/legacy/usr/bin 
GROFF_FONT_PATH=/usr/obj/usr/src/i386/legacy/usr/share/groff_font 
GROFF_TMAC_PATH=/usr/obj/usr/src/i386/legacy/usr/share/tmac
PATH=/usr/obj/usr/src/i386/legacy/usr/sbin:/usr/obj/usr/src/i386/legacy/usr/bin:/usr/obj/usr/src/i386/legacy/usr/games:/usr/obj/usr/src/i386/usr/sbin:/usr/obj/usr/src/i386/usr/bin:/usr/obj/usr/src/i386/usr/games:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin  make KERNEL=kernel install
make: don't know how to make bsd.README. Stop
*** Error code 2
 
Stop in /usr/src.
*** Error code 1
 
Stop in /usr/src.


 I saw this error on google from back in june.....

kern/68452: Current GENERIC kerne build failure
Maxim Konovalov  

but it has of course been resolved.........
Synopsis: Current GENERIC kerne build failure

State-Changed-From-To: open->closed
State-Changed-By: maxim
State-Changed-When: Mon Jun 28 18:14:14 GMT 2004
State-Changed-Why: 
Already fixed. Please report -CURRENT kernel build failures to
freebsd-current mailing list.

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=68452




Any help greatly appreciated..

Thanks,

Aaron




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