5.3 and building world

[gabriel]

Yeah thats the thing, I guess I should actually paste the error and
the sequence. I'll do that when I get home.

Cheers!

On Sun, 6 Mar 2005 12:19:33 -0800, Kent Stewart <kstewart at owt.com> wrote:
> On Sunday 06 March 2005 12:01 pm, gabriel wrote:
> > Yep, I know enoguh to read through the handbook, the problem lies in
> > the fact that if I use make buildkernel KERNCONF=MYKERNEL I get a
> > stop error which says I have to buildworld first (even though I have
> > before this step). Thats the reason for the question. But thanks
> > anyway
> 
> Ah, you didn't say that. If you cvsup, you have to do the buildworld
> first. You need to figure out why buildkernel can't find the obj files
> in /usr/obj. If you already have a current installed world with a
> generic kernel, you can use the config MYKERNEL way of building a new
> kernel.
> 
> Kent
> 
> >
> > Cheers!
> >
> > On Sun, 6 Mar 2005 11:59:55 -0800, Kent Stewart <kstewart at owt.com>
> wrote:
> > > On Sunday 06 March 2005 11:17 am, gabriel wrote:
> > > > Alright so when upgrading to 5.3 from 5.2 I cvsuped the source
> > > > which obviously got GENERIC overwritten. My question is, besides
> > > > the instructions on /usr/src/Makefile(?) is there another way to
> > > > update the source and be able to specify a custom kernel?
> > >
> > > There is a whole chapter on configuring your own kernel. They show
> > > you how to cp GENERIC to your own name and then use it. See
> > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/kernelcon
> > >fig.html
> > >
> > > They show you both the config way and the new build[install]kernel
> > > way of maintaing your kernel. I log everything and have the
> > > individual commands in shell scripts so that a mistake won't do
> > > something unexpected.
> > >
> > > Kent
> > >
> > > > Cheers!
> > >
> > > --
> > > Kent Stewart
> > > Richland, WA
> > >
> > > http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html
> 
> --
> Kent Stewart
> Richland, WA
> 
> http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html
> 


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gabriel,

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