First time building new kernel 5.1-RELEASE

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Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2004 22:38:08 -0500
To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Hi,

Trying to build a new kernel, having some
issues...

First, I tried to follow the FreeBSD Handbook,
Section 9.3, Procedure 1. Building a Kernel the
``Traditional'' Way; experienced the following
issue: =================================
[root@Oberon conf]# pwd /usr/src/sys/i386/conf
[root@Oberon conf]# config OBERON
config: OBERON:226: devices with zero units are
not likely to be correct [root@Oberon conf]#
=================================

So I looked at line 226 of OBERON, and I saw:
=================================
device pci
=================================

As far as I can tell, this line is exactly as it
appears in LINT; has tabs, not spaces, though I
thought whitespace was whitespace here.

I man config, and see that "The line numbers
reported in error messages are usually off by
one." I did not experience this with a previous
mistake, but here are the lines around line 226:
=================================
device isa
device eisa
device pci
device fdc0 at isa? port IO_FD1 irq 6
drq 2
device fd0 at fdc0 drive 0
device fd1 at fdc0 drive 1
=================================

Again, I don't see what's wrong.

So, I tried Procedure 2. Building a Kernel the
``New'' Way: ================================= #
cd /usr/src # make buildkernel KERNCONF=MYKERNEL #
make installkernel KERNCONF=MYKERNEL
=================================

This seemed to work, since it didn't report the
weirdness the first method did, but when I
rebooted, dmesg shows:
================================= Copyright (c)
1992-2003 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979,
1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993,
1994
        The Regents of the University of
California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD
5.1-RELEASE #0: Thu Jun 5 02:55:42 GMT 2003
 
root@wv1u.btc.adaptec.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GEN
ERIC
=================================

This indicates that I'm not running the new
kernel, "OBERON", doesn't it? If I check
/usr/obj/usr/src/sys, I see:
=================================
[root@Oberon sys]# pwd /usr/obj/usr/src/sys
[root@Oberon sys]# ls GENERIC OBERON boot
[root@Oberon sys]#
=================================

Obviously I did something wrong; doesn't look like
I configured the machine to boot the new
kernel...but I can't find where the Handbook
addresses dumbasses like me...any help in pointing
me in the right direction is a greatly
appreciated.

Edward Carmody, CCNP
Systems Engineer
ShoreGroup
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F: 646.349.3506
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ecarmody@shoregroup.com

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