Error appear while building my custom kernel

marcel marcel.plouf at gmail.com
Tue Jun 27 12:58:30 UTC 2017


Le Tue, 27 Jun 2017 01:02:32 +1000 (EST),
Ian Smith <smithi at nimnet.asn.au> a écrit :

> In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 682, Issue 1, Message: 6
> On Mon, 26 Jun 2017 12:53:12 +0200 marcel <marcel.plouf at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>  > Hi,
>  > 
>  > I tried to build the kernel from the FreeBSD 11 stable source,
>  > following this chapter form the Handbook :
>  > https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/kernelconfig.html
>  > 
>  > So, I've checked the source with subversion in /usr/src and then
>  > I've edited the GENERIC config file and I have an error when I did
>  > 'make buildkernel KERNCONF=MYKERNEL' .  
> 
> I think that chapter could emphasise more the second method shown as 
> being generally more desirable - namely creating a config file to:
> 
> include GENERIC
> ident MYKERNEL
> 
> options		whatever
> nooptions	this that tother
> device		something another
> nodevice	whiskers jam
> 
> as shown in the referenced config(5)
> 
> Especially when other people might have to look it over, rather than 
> trying to spot everything that differs from GENERIC - and then it
> would also be of a size that you can reasonably include into a list
> message.

Okay, I take note, thanks for advice.

> 
> For instance I noticed in passing, while skimming, that you included
>  device		umass			# Disks/Mass
> storage - Requires scbus and da for USB, but had commented out scbus
> and da in the ATA section.  Not suggesting that might be the
> particular problem here, just an example.

Yeah, that was the problem, I'm sorry to haven't read more carefully
the comments...

> 
>  > Here is my kernel config file and the logs:
>  > https://bpaste.net/show/8d0b2e755142
>  >   
>  > >From line 1 to line 369 it's the kernel config file and from line
>  > >370  
>  > to the end it's the logs (sorry for that).   
> 
> The first and last dozen or so log lines would likely be enough :)

And yeah, sorry for that too, next times I will be careful.

> 
> No I don't know what this problem might be, just suggesting that less 
> might be more in terms of getting some knowing eyes on the problem.
> 
> Have you tried just 'make buildkernel KERNCONF=GENERIC' ? If that
> works alright, it's a config file problem.  Otherwise .. it's an
> issue :)
> 
> FWIW, Ian

Anyway, thanks for the answer, I have a working kernel now ! ;)



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