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From: veit@mururoa.NoSubdomain.NoDomain (Holger Veit)
Subject: Re: Kernel building?
Message-ID: <1993Apr1.152904.22825@gmd.de>
Sender: veit@mururoa (Holger Veit)
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References: <C4t7pL.7IF@nmrdc1.nmrdc.nnmc.navy.mil>
Date: Thu, 1 Apr 1993 15:29:04 GMT
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In article <C4t7pL.7IF@nmrdc1.nmrdc.nnmc.navy.mil>, dsc3pzp@nmrdc1.nmrdc.nnmc.navy.mil (Philip Perucci) writes:
|> 1st-time kernel compile...
|>
|> 1) Install of bin01/src01/etc01 - no problem
|> 2) Install patchkit 0.2.2 - no problem
|> 3) config - PROBLEM
|>
|> Is there a doc somewhere that explains kernel compiling a bit more
|> than the instructions that come with patchkit 0.2.2?
|>
|> I had to do "config GENERICISA" to get config to work (doing make
|> right now). I created directory "MYCONFIG" in /sys/compile, and
|> tried "config MYCONFIG" ... no joy (file not found error).
|> BTW- I did NOT do "rm -r /sys/compile/GENERICISA" before config ...
|> had a bad feeling about that.
|>
|> Any ideas? Flames? Anything?
The answer to your question is in the text: "file not found error".
In the directory /sys/i386/conf you find several configuration descriptions,
one of them is GENERICISA. Copy this into a file MYCONFIG in this directory
and (this is the hard part for the beginner) modify it to contain the
required things. Run "config MYCONFIG"; this will create the directory
/sys/compile/MYCONFIG and some files in it. Go to /sys/compile/MYCONFIG,
run "make clean; make depend; make" and hopefully you get a kernel "386bsd"
in this directory which you can test: Copy your old working kernel /386bsd to
/386bsd.old, copy /sys/compile/MYCONFIG/386bsd to /386bsd an reboot.
If the reboot fails, boot from a floppy and replace the defective kernel
with /386bsd.
The hard part is the syntax of the configuration; there is documentation
available (gatekeeper.dec.com:/.0/BSD/manuals if I remember correctly),
but as they are mainly written for the VAX architecture, they are rather
misleading for the non-insider. If you want to add things, look
at the templates (hopefully) provided by the writer of the add-on code.
Hope that helps.
Holger
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