when make installkernel doesn't
J.F. Noonan
Hi,
Yesterday I cvsup'd to -stable on an machine that had been running
4.5-stable (with 247 days of uptime). I started a make buildworld
and a make buildkernel KERNCONF=MYKERNELNAME and went home.
This morning, I dropped to single-user and did a make installworld
followed by a make installkernel KERNCONF=MYKERNELNAME. I did a
mergemaster, sync,sync,reboot. When the system came back up, I
did a netstat -a to be sure that my network services were all
running before leaving the machine room to go to my desk.
Huh, that's weird, nothing running but syslog. tail -f
/var/log/maillog and see mail is going out and in. uh, ok. ps
ax|grep sendmail. ps: proc size mismatch (41184 total, 1060
chunks). OK, that means libkvm is out of sync so I go make that
and remake ps. Same thing happens.
Hrrm, uname -a: 4.5-STABLE FreeBSD 4.5-STABLE #1: Fri Mar 22
17:55:41 CSt 2002. Well that's not the kernel I installed and
that isn't yesterday's date. date: Wed Jan 29 09:09:38 CST 2003
-- Clock's OK (better be or ntp is broken).
Alright, surely something must have gone wrong with that
installkernel let's just do another buildkernel and installkernel.
Build goes w/o incident, drop to single and install. Reboot, same
kernel.
I have done this 100 times if I have done this once and I have
never seen a kernel refuse to install. Can anybody point out what
is wrong?
Thanks,
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Chris BeHanna
This is one thing:
> This morning, I dropped to single-user and did a make installworld
> followed by a make installkernel KERNCONF=MYKERNELNAME. I did a
You do a make installkernel *first*, *then* reboot and make sure
it at least comes back to single user.
Then and only then do you do an installworld.
You might get yourself to goodness by copying your new kernel and
new modules by hand from /usr/obj to their appropriate places.
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