hiya. anyone have a good kernel config for freebsd 8.1? i can't seem to get the aic scsi driver disabled... if i try, make depend gives me: ../aicasm/aicasm:Permission denied make depend? e.g. config MYCONF && cd ../compile/MYCONF && make cleandepend depend all install oofa http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/makeworld.html well... just building the kernel, not the whole system make buildkernel KERNCONF=NAME && make installkernel KERNCONF=NAME reboot voila verramos... you really won't gain much by removing tons of stuff from your config imo.. I have goten my conf down to 80 odd lines before but its just a bit silly with a vps imo nonetheless I know the urge for fiddling :P make sure to cp your kernel config file to /usr/src/sys/amd64/conf/ and cd /usr/src prior to the above steps freebsd? just got the last 2 lines it was intended for ww :) what steps? building kernels i actually wrote an entire custom guide + wrote the kernel config file for a guy on irc and he hasnt used it yet.... lol yeah it happens with focus on performance and safety nesta: thanks, seems to be going better now... shame they couldn't have kept the old style build working ... i previously wrote a parser for him (which he used though) the old style should work for parts of the tree teurastaja: removing the aic scsi driver, then doing "config MYCONF && cd ../compile/MYCONF && make cleandepend depend all" seems to break on the "depend" part i had problems with the aic driver previously (first time i actually built a kernel) looking for some program related to aic... its a config problem teurastaja: i started here by asking if someone has a good config already for the arpnetworks boxes :P youre including an unwanted option which makes depends that arent needed and breaks it (probably) pastebin i know nothing of arpnetworks i thought id slip in to spy on the channel next thing i know its freebsd talk pastebin; i think i know the problem (if you dont need aic (confirm)) don't need aic... just moving the config around to where i can bin it does it fail on aicasm depends? something like that http://pastebin.ca/1963999 first time building a kernel? on this host, yes but; using make buildkernel seems to wokr properly... include generic, comment out whats needed and negate unwanted options (style and ease style) >>> Kernel build for RIVER completed on Sat Oct 16 15:15:14 CEST 2010 removing reverse compat is not recommended various parts still depend on old stuff I thought that was mostly for binary compatibility - surely the freebsd tree itself is up to date with its own abi? aic shouldnt cause problems with this config file not for some semaphores and fancy uncommon stuff thats well hidden and you never hear about brb (10 minutes) keep reverse compat (strong suggestion) ok... at least keep compat for 7 to avoid bad surprises well it's not a particularly expensive thing to keep... in terms of kernel size or compile time so may as well you should also take the time to read /usr/src/sys/conf/NOTES and /usr/src/sys/amd64/conf/NOTES for some useful optimisations im back do you really need kbdmux? is your mouse a ps.2 mouse? *ps/2 how is kbd plugged? psm0: irq 12 on atkbdc0 not that i need support for a mouse at all ... just the minimal console in case of some sort of big problem... even then when they add my ssh key i'll make a serial console so could actually disable all of that scons stuff i disabled psm, atkbd, atkbdc and enabled ukbd but i have usb mouse and kbd do we have local ntp servers at arpnetworks? ww: yes, i was wondering this