On Sun, Jan 16, 2005 at 11:15:23PM -0800, Doug Hardie wrote: > > On Jan 16, 2005, at 22:05, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > >On Sun, Jan 16, 2005 at 09:51:13PM -0800, Doug Hardie wrote: > >>The instructions for building world/kernel for 4.x are straight > >>forward > >>and work fine. However, I seem to have munged two 5.3 installations > >>now. I have been through all the UPDATING notes and the handbook and > >>something is obviously not clear. > >> > >>The approach I used is: > >> > >>Clean install from 5.3 distribution. > >>make buildworld > >>create new config file LAFN > >>make buildkernel KERNCONF=LAFN > >>make installkernel KERNCONF=LAFN > >>reboot > >>make installworld > >>reboot > >> > >>At that point It appeared I was using the LAFN kernel rather than > >>generic. > >> > >>However, tonight I tried to make a new kernel. NO go: > >>ERROR: version of config(8) does not match kernel! > >>config version = 500012, version required = 500013 > >> > >>So I tried to reinstall the kernel: > >>make installkernel KERNCONF=LAFN > >>install -o root -g wheel -m 555 acpi.ko /boot/kernel > >>install: acpi.ko: No such file or directory > >> > >>How are you supposed to build a new kernel that works? How do I > >>recover this? > > > >The only way I can think for this to happen is if your source tree was > >inconsistent (i.e. not completely updated), or you updated your > >sources after you did the installworld, and the kernel depends on the > >newer version of config than the one you have built (in this case the > >'safe' buildworld/buildkernel/installkernel method you used to begin > >with should still work). > > > >Kris > > Well, I tried makeworld again. Dies in Step 3. Reloaded all source > from the distribution > CD. makeworld dies in exactly the same place:
Really, this all points to something else having changed on your system in the meantime. Try cd /usr/src make cleandir make cleandir make buildworld Kris
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