custom kernel, make buildkernel and then?

Garrett Cooper youshi10 at u.washington.edu
Wed Oct 11 01:35:15 PDT 2006


Garrett Cooper wrote:
> Zbigniew Szalbot wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> On Wed, 11 Oct 2006, Erik Norgaard wrote:
>>
>>> Yes, you can install the kernel. Applications don't live in 
>>> kernelspace. If your kernel fails to boot you can boot the old 
>>> kernel by in the loader menu go to a promt, unload the kernel and 
>>> load kernel.old.
>>
>> Now here comes the funny part. When I do, I get the following message:
>>
>> $ sudo make installkernel KERNCONF=LISTS
>> ERROR: No kernel "LISTS" to install.
>> *** Error code 1
>>
>> Stop in /usr/src.
>> *** Error code 1
>>
>> Stop in /usr/src.
>>
>> Should I specify the path like KERNCONF=/root/kernel/LISTS ?
>>
>> Thank you very much for taking time to help me!
>>
>> -- 
>> Zbigniew Szalbot
> Easier just to go ln -s /root/kernel/LISTS /usr/src/sys/[arch]/conf/ .
>
> -Garrett
Err... omit that last period in the ln command. I just realized that 
could be misleading.
-Garrett


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