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Move the installkernel information that I added down a bit, and clarify

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Tom Rhodes 2002-07-16 02:11:35 +00:00
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can then build a new kernel based on your normal kernel configuration can then build a new kernel based on your normal kernel configuration
file.</para> file.</para>
<note><para>If kern.securelevel is elevated, then installkernel may fail
due to the system immutable flag option. Because of this, the user
may be required to use &man.chflags.1; with with noschg option. This
will allow the install process to overwrite the currently installed
kernel.</para></note>
<para>If you are upgrading to &os; 4.0 or above then the old <para>If you are upgrading to &os; 4.0 or above then the old
kernel build procedure (as described in <xref linkend="kernelconfig">) kernel build procedure (as described in <xref linkend="kernelconfig">)
is deprecated. Instead, you should run these commands is deprecated. Instead, you should run these commands
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&prompt.root; <userinput>make buildkernel</userinput> &prompt.root; <userinput>make buildkernel</userinput>
&prompt.root; <userinput>make installkernel</userinput></screen> &prompt.root; <userinput>make installkernel</userinput></screen>
<para>Note that if you have raised <literal>kern.securelevel</literal>
above 1 <emphasis>and</emphasis> you have set either the
<literal>noschg</literal> or similar flags to your kernel binary, you
might find it necessary to drop into single user mode to use
<maketarget>installkernel</maketarget>. Otherwise you should be able
to run both these commands from multi user mode without
problems. See &man.init.8; for details about
<literal>kern.securelevel</literal> and &man.chflags.1; for details
about the various file flags.</para>
<para>If you are upgrading to a version of &os; below 4.0 you should <para>If you are upgrading to a version of &os; below 4.0 you should
use the old kernel build procedure. However, it is recommended use the old kernel build procedure. However, it is recommended
that you use the new version of &man.config.8;, using a command line that you use the new version of &man.config.8;, using a command line