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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!warrane.connect.com.au!troll.apana.org.au!rivendell.apana.org.au!not-for-mail From: phil@rivendell.apana.org.au (Phil Homewood) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Kernel compiling and some other questions. Date: 28 Oct 1994 01:17:36 +1000 Organization: Rivendell - APANA Brisbane. Lines: 34 Distribution: world Message-ID: <38ogag$fgd@rivendell.apana.org.au> References: <38llc2$cb3@newsflash.concordia.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: rivendell.apana.org.au X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Paul Quinn (p_quinn@ECE.Concordia.CA) wrote: : - In order to modify the kernel I edit /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/SYSCONS. I then : type config SYSCONS and cd /usr/src/sys/compile/SYSCONS. Now if I do a make : depend something compiles. What exactly does make depend do? It doesn't seem : to change my kernel. If on the other hand I do make. I then get a new kernel : that I can copy to / and reboot. The changes seem to be there. make depend only generates the dependency rules (what part of the source depends on what other parts). It doesn't actually 'compile' anything. : - I have two HD's. Drive one is and IDE and drive two SCSI. I boot OS/2 : bootmanager from the IIDE and then select my OS. When I select BSD, I get : a message saying to enter hd(1,a)/386bsd if I want to boot BSD from a second : drive. How do I make my kernel so that it defaults to booting the kernel : off the SCSI? I'm not up on IDE+SCSI systems. Julian? Anyone? : - One last simple question: I have 8 virtual consoles. How do I switch : between them? Alt+F[1-8]. Make sure there's entries in /etc/ttys for them first though :-) Cheers, Phil. -- Phil Homewood phil@rivendell.apana.org.au APANA Brisbane Regional Co-Ordinator brisbane@apana.org.au "I got nothing to say I ain't said before I bled all I can, I won't bleed no more"