Hello, > De : Kevin Chadwick <ma1l1i...@yahoo.co.uk> > Split your config in half, choose the half you think is most likely to > cause the problem and diff that half back to defaults and compile.
Just to ack what Kevin says. You're trying to add and remove too many different things at once. First take the Generic kernel and add the driver that you wanted, compile. Then remove unecessary drivers from one type of hardware (for example soundcards), compile, repeat the process with other drivers (joysticks, scanners...). Make sure that you backup all working config files and restart from the last config that worked. The other way is to do like you did, add and remove options from the Generic kernel (keep a copy of it) but it requires the ability to understand the output when the compilation fails. Also if you understood what Vitali wrote, it should be quite straight forward to remove options in the kernel and then be able to compile it smoothly. I used to run a Custom kernel and removed as many options as I could but when something went wrong (in most cases I wanted to install a new software) I always wondered if that was due to my kernel, so each time I had to reboot on Generic and restarted to troubleshoot from there. Now I just find it more convenient to run Generic since I don't have specific requirements. However, I think that it's not a reason to say "don't compile a Custom kernel" (this is not a troll). It's part of a "general OpenBSD knowledge" to be able to build a Custom kernel. And this is different from "I've built a Custom kernel, it compiled fine, but the system acts funny/wrong sometimes". Have a nice day
