Determining kernel?
Patrick Baldwin
Patrick.Baldwin at studsvik.com
Tue Dec 4 10:20:39 PST 2007
Philip M. Gollucci wrote:
> Patrick Baldwin wrote:
>> I was reading through the handbook section on updating, as I'd
>> like to update a FreeBSD 6.2 system. One of the things I noticed
>> is that you need to specify what kernel you want in the KERNCONF
>> line. Is there any way to get a running FreeBSD system to tell
>> me what kernel is being used?
> uname -a
> FreeBSD philip.hq.rws 8.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 8.0-CURRENT #0: Tue Nov 6
> 16:28:12 EST 2007
> pgollucci at philip.hq.rws:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/RIDERWAY i386
>
> Notice the path at the end.
>
OK, the path at the end for me is:
/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SMP i386
However, when I use uname -i as someone else suggested, it gives me:
SMP-GENERIC
So which do I substitute for MYKERNEL in the KERNCONF lines:
make buildkernel KERNCONF=MYKERNEL
make installkernel KERNCONF=MYKERNEL
Thanks!
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