> * /dev/null <null_at_dnswatch.com> [20050427 12:22]: wrote: >> Read on... >> > * /dev/null <null_at_dnswatch.com> [20050427 09:27]: wrote: >> >> Odhiambo Washington, >> >> Thank you for your thoughtful reply. According to the documentation >> >> located at: >> >> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/kernelconfig-building.html >> >> ... >> >> For example: >> >> >> >> # cd /usr/src/sys/i386/conf >> >> # mkdir /root/kernels >> >> # cp GENERIC /root/kernels/MYKERNEL >> >> # ln -s /root/kernels/MYKERNEL >> >> ... >> >> So, in case it is not yet apparent, DEMON01 is located in >> /root/krenels >> >> and the link is located in /usr/src/sys/i386/conf (yes I re-created >> it >> >> after re-installing src). >> >> >> >> Are we on the same page yet. ;) >> > >> > I have been compiling kernels for the last 8 years, so I am not gonna >> > read the documentation again about how to do it, but as sure as day >> > follows night, the "ln -s /root/kernels/MYKERNEL" is a useless step! >> >> O.K. I don't want to be argumentative here, or do I ;) But seriously, I >> just performed surgery on a P2B-AE motherboard. What I have done is >> simply >> provided support for the bus speeds that the boards timer is capable of >> providing, but that ASUS removed for SONY. This is a mobo that ASUS used >> for in-house R&D and later sold to SONY who sent it out as a VAIO. As it >> (the board) was the proto for the ASUS P3B-1394, I am using that BIOS >> image as opposed to the one that SONY provided. Of course this required >> some soldering and other witchcraft. > > > I am not surprised you call yourself /dev/null ;-) Everything seems to > end with you. > > >> ANYWAY, to the point; After all this voodoo I followed the instructions >> as described *verbatum* and it runs like a top. Built as expected, ran >> as expected. Now this one which required *no* voodoo won't build at all! >> SO, >> (not to discount the value of your shared wisdom, and years of >> experience) >> what I intend to do, is: cd /, rm -fr . Then with 5.4-RC3 in the CDROM, >> reboot, newfs, install, reboot and see what happens after a cvsup -g -L >> 2 >> <src-all>, make buildworld, make buildkernel KERNCONF=CUSTKERN, make >> installkernel KERNCONF=CUSTKERN, reboot, boot -s, >> /etc/rc.d/preseedrandom, >> mergmaster -p, make installworld, mergemaster, reboot, boot kernel. > > That sounds like a good decision, as it is bound to work unless > something weird happened with your witchcraft. > > >> Why you may ask? Because I performed a rm -fr /usr/src, >> downloaded/unpacked >> 5.4-RC3 src. cvsup -g -L2 <src-all>, make buildworld. And it froze again >> before finishing. After rebooting to single user mode and performing: >> fsck >> -f and rebooting, then running make buildworld, it PANICED, then >> REBOOTED, >> and I SAID !!!ENOUGH!!! > > There is something wrong with that hardware, I think. This would be my suspicion as well. The _only_ difference is the processor. No jumper changes or anything else. Anyway, this may be a faulty processor. A re-install as noted above should tell the tale. Hopefully, it just turns out to be a faulty file or some such thing that the re-install cures. > But I keep install > CDs for 4.10 (4.11 sucks), Thank you for your review of 4.11. Hadn't had an opprotunity to check that out yet. Now I won't need to waste my time. :) > 5.2.1 and 5.3-REL. Whenever one behaves > badly, I try another. Agreed, this is my path as well. > If all fails, install Microshit Windows ;) Not here. FreeBSD _replaces_ Win* here. :) > > >> I hope I have been concise enough that there is no doubt or confusion on >> any of this. :) > > You were. Let me know what comes up! I will, and thanks again for following along here - agony loves company. ;) Best wishes, Chris > > > > > -Wash > > http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html > > -- > +======================================================================+ > |\ _,,,---,,_ | Odhiambo Washington <wash_at_wananchi.com> > Zzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ | Wananchi Online Ltd. www.wananchi.com > |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-'| Tel: +254 20 313985-9 +254 20 313922 > '---''(_/--' `-'\_) | GSM: +254 722 743223 +254 733 744121 > +======================================================================+ > " ... I told my doctor I got all the exercise I needed being a > pallbearer for all my friends who run and do exercises!" > -- Winston Churchill > //////////////////////////////////////////////////// If only Western Electric had found a way to offer binary licenses for the UNIX system back in 1974, the UNIX system would be running on all PC's today rather than DOS/Windows. ////////////////////////////////////////////////////Received on Wed Apr 27 2005 - 12:21:18 UTC
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