Subject: Re: Kernel: make install Question
To: Dennis <mips128@gmx.net>
From: Hubert Feyrer <hubert@feyrer.de>
List: port-cobalt
Date: 06/15/2006 14:20:15
On Thu, 15 Jun 2006, Dennis wrote:
> I am trying to get my USB card to work with Netbsd. I used this guide:
> http://www.aironaut.ch/content/view/27/53/ And so far I have no problem, the
> kernel compiled (make). But know I am little bit confused, because the guide
> just says to do a make install and reboot, but as far as I know the Qube
> boots the kernel from the first partition, which must be an ext2. Of courses
> the partition exists, but it is not mounted:
> qube# df -h
> Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
> /dev/wd0a 272G 1.9G 257G 0% /
> /dev/wd0f 2.0G 1.6M 1.9G 0% /var
> /dev/wd0g 485M 3.0K 460M 0% /tmp
>
> So my question is: Do I need to mount the ext2 partition first or does the
> make install handels it ...
If you don't know what "make install" does, run "make -n install" and see.
I don't see where the cobalt kernel Makefile comes from right now, but my
guess is that you have to mount the boot partition manually.
- Hubert