Dear @misc,
This is partly a follow-up from my previous email about the Macbook boot
issues, but I thought I would ask in a separate email because the
question is less machine specific:
I’d like to automate the process of patching and installing a newly
compiled kernel after running `sysupgrade`, so as to avoid having to
wait 4+ hours each time I install a new version.
I can’t figure out how to do it. Here’s what I tried:
- fetch latest sources, apply my changes
- `# make obj; make config; make`for `
/sys/arch/amd64/compile/{RAMDISK,GENERIC,GENERIC.MP}
- `install` the new bsd.rd as bsd.patched and {bsd,bsd.mp} to
`/home/_sysupgrade`
- reboot
- at boot prompt boot bsd.patched
But this doesn’t work. Starting bsd.patched just keeps rebooting and if
I boot bsd.upgrade the newly compiled files don’t get installed on
upgrade, so I am back with the original 2-hour boot bug. I am wondering
whether I should be copying the custom kernel files elsewhere, not to
the root of /home/_sysupgrade or whether I would need a custom
bsd.upgrade?
What would be the correct way to swap out the kernel for automatic
installation on each upgrade?
Thanks,
rqm
