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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yoyo.aarnet.edu.au!news.adelaide.edu.au!usenet From: @atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Mike Smith) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: How to edit & recompile the kernel???? Date: 19 Jun 1995 08:02:58 GMT Organization: Genesis Software Lines: 17 Distribution: world Message-ID: <3s3avi$krq@quandong.itd.adelaide.edu.au> References: <3rgde8$oif@news1.best.com> <3rjjq9$s49@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de> <3rmt9b$eak@anshar.shadow.net> Reply-To: msmith@ars.adelaide.edu.au NNTP-Posting-Host: exodus.atrad.adelaide.edu.au X-Newsreader: IBM NewsReader/2 v1.03 >: To rebuild a kernel, there should be a FAQ. Basically, it's .. >: mv /kernel /kernel.old >: cp kernel /kernel.new >: ln /kernel.new /kernel > >Although I personally wouldn't ln the new kernel, I'd reboot and pick >kernel.new to boot from before I actually mde the change more permanent..... _This_ is a faq. The last command is "make install", and if it doesn't work, you can boot from kernel.old and try again. The above process loses the file flags set on the kernel that stop root from accidentally destroying it 8) > Donald Alan Whiteside MDCC Wage Slave School of Computer Science Mike