>> How do I go about compiling a new kernel?

> The easiest way is to (assuming you're on an i386):
> 	cd /sys/arch/i386/conf
> 	cp GENERICAHA FOO
> 	vi FOO    (or whatever you wanna call it...  Just edit
> 		   this file to make it match your machine)
> 	/usr/sbin/config FOO
> 	cd ../compile/FOO
> 	make depend && make

Also, of course, assuming the AHA kernel is the right one for you.

And what explorer didn't say is how to tweak this for other
architectures; fortunately, about the only thing that needs doing is to
replace the i386 in the first cd command, and use the correct kernel
config file (usually GENERIC - the i386 is rather the oddball in that
it has multiple GENERIC kernels - try "ls /sys/arch/*/conf/*GENERIC*"
if you want to see. :-)

> If it builds,
> 	mv /netbsd /onetbsd
> 	mv netbsd /netbsd
> and reboot.

And don't make the mistake I did, of doing "cp netbsd /netbsd+ && mv
/netbsd /netbsd- && mv /netbsd+ /netbsd && reboot".  If the old kernel
is called netbsd- then you can't boot from it (!), at least on some
architectures.  It turns out the second-stage boot program has a really
dumb parser that takes a - as a flag marker even when it's not preceded
by whitespace.  (Nowadays I use /netbsdN and /netbsdX.)

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