Hi,
I have FreeBSD 9.0 (p4) with custom kernel.
uname -i says it:
HOMEWIFI90
However, when I run freebsd-update fetch command it would like to
update my kernel as well:
freebsd-update fetch
Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 3 mirrors found.
Fetching metadata signature for 9.0-RELEASE
On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 11:47 AM, Denis piloy...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
I have FreeBSD 9.0 (p4) with custom kernel.
uname -i says it:
HOMEWIFI90
However, when I run freebsd-update fetch command it would like to
update my kernel as well:
freebsd-update fetch
Looking up
Hi Alexandre,
Have you rebuilt your custom kernel after ?
This is described in the Handbook in the section 25.2.2
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/updating-upgrading-freebsdupdate.html
Yes, I rebuilt my custom kernel after. But this doesn't help - every
time I run
On Mon, 20 Aug 2012 14:37:40 +0400, Denis wrote:
Hi Alexandre,
Have you rebuilt your custom kernel after ?
This is described in the Handbook in the section 25.2.2
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/updating-upgrading-freebsdupdate.html
Yes, I rebuilt my custom
Then why not follow my suggestion of _letting_ freebsd-update
update the kernel, but _use_ a different one instead which it
won't touch? In /boot/loader.conf:
kernel=mykernel
bootfile=/boot/mykernel/kernel
Now freebsd-update can happily alter the default kernel without
== Denis wrote on Mon 20.Aug'12 at 16:41:56 +0400 ==
Then why not follow my suggestion of _letting_ freebsd-update
update the kernel, but _use_ a different one instead which it
won't touch? In /boot/loader.conf:
kernel=mykernel
bootfile=/boot/mykernel/kernel
Now
If you're building your own customised kernel, why don't you just build the
entire system from source? I've not used freebsd-update yet and probably
won't. Is it just a matter of time, i.e. waiting for the compilation to
finish?
Actually I built this system from source. And now use
