On 02-Feb-2003 Taylor Dondich wrote:
> After reading src/UPDATING and attempting to follow the directions to 
> upgrade from 4.7-RELEASE to -CURRENT, I'm having some difficulty, after 
> successfully building world and building and installing the kernel, I 
> attempted to make install in src/sys/boot.  I'm getting the following error:
> 
> ((inappropriate text taken out))
> ====> i386/mbr
> install  -o root -g wheel -m 444  mbr /boot
> install: mbr: No such file or directory
> *** Error code 71

Do a simple make first, then a make install.
 
> Sadly, I'm not experienced, this is my first CURRENT build, and I'm 
> hoping I researched enough of it, but if I'm missing something that's 
> documented, I'd love if someone pointed it out so I can further educate 
> myself.

The source tree doesn't work like ports, where "make install" will do all the
prerequisite steps first.  If you say "make install" in /usr/src/*, you'd
better have already built something!  :-)

-- 
Conrad Sabatier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - "In Unix veritas"


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