Sorry to sound basic, if I upgrade the kernel to v4 will that mean
that I'm running version 4 of NetBSD?

In theory this shouldn't change the way my machine works, it'll just
be running a newer kernel?

What worries me is if I compile a poo kernel and am unable to get
back into the os to put the old image back.

What are the Qube specific switches and configurations used to do
this?

I think I'm going to need some hand hloding through this or I may
cry.

--- Erik Berls <cyber@ono-sendai.com> wrote:

> On 12/9/06, Andy Ruhl <acruhl@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On 12/9/06, Glyn Astill <glynastill@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> > > I'm using version 3.99.17 from the net boot cd, do I still have
> to do
> > > this?
> > >
> > > If so a little extra instruction would be helpfull as the
> closest
> > > thing I have done to this is recompiling a slackware kernel
> with make
> > > bzimage.
> >
> > It's not as simple as that, and not as simple as other machines
> either
> > unfortunately...
> >
> > Hmm. First you need the source for that level. Do you happen to
> have
> > it? If not, does someone know where to get it?
> >
> > The other thing you can do is just grab source from a higher
> level
> > kernel and build from it since backwards compatibility won't be a
> > problem.
> 
> 
> 
> 3.99.17/19 is about half a year old.  At this point, my
> recommendation is to
> try to use a NetBSD-4 branch kernel (one is available from
> releng.netbsd.org)
> which will already have the option.  That will at least tell you if
> the
> kernel will work.
> 
> Try things out in single user mode, without deleting anything
> already on
> your system.  (ie: boot single user mode, add nat/filter rules, run
> a test)
> 
> -=erik.
> 
> 
> Very basically, get the syssrc.tgz package, and put it in / and
> untar
> > it with tar xvzpf.
> >
> > cd /usr/src/sys/arch/cobalt/conf
> > cp GENERIC NEWKERNEL
> >
> > Then edit this file. It may already have the option in there that
> you
> > need.
> >
> > To build:
> > config NEWKERNEL
> > cd ../compile/NEWKERNEL
> > make depends && make
> > (it will take a while)
> >
> > You'll end up with a netbsd kernel file which needs to be put in
> /.
> > Copy the old one and put this one in there.
> >
> > BUT, the problem is, I'm not sure how your machine is set up to
> boot.
> > In the old days we booted kernels directly out of the linux
> partition.
> > Now it's set to load the bootloader out of the linux partition,
> whch
> > then is smart enough to boot /netbsd. Probably this is what you
> have,
> > but I'm not sure.
> >
> > I know for a fact that my 3.1 box has that option set as Izumi
> said.
> > If the 3.1 kernel is higher than the one you have, you can simply
> go
> > and download it and put it in place too.
> >
> > Andy
> > config
> >
> 



Glyn Astill



		
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