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iMer

hey
when i tried to update freebsd with 'freebsd-update upgrade -r 8.0-RELEASE'
it told me to update the kernel manually
how do i do this?
PHP: 
WARNING: This system is running a "ovh" kernel, which is not a
kernel configuration distributed as part of FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE.
This kernel will not be updated: you MUST update the kernel manually
before running "/usr/sbin/freebsd-update install".

The following components of FreeBSD seem to be installed:
src/base world/base world/dict world/games world/info

The following components of FreeBSD do not seem to be installed:
kernel/generic src/bin src/cddl src/contrib src/crypto src/etc src/games
src/gnu src/include src/krb5 src/lib src/libexec src/release src/rescue
src/sbin src/secure src/share src/sys src/tools src/ubin src/usbin
world/catpages world/doc world/manpages world/proflibs


iMer
sorry for bad english =/
 
But also note:

The freebsd-update utility can automatically update the GENERIC kernel only. If a custom kernel is in use, it will have to be rebuilt and reinstalled after freebsd-update finishes installing the rest of the updates. However, freebsd-update will detect and update the GENERIC kernel in /boot/GENERIC (if it exists), even if it is not the current (running) kernel of the system.
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how i change the kernel to GENERIC or do something that it uses a updated GENERIC kernel? (don't know how to say in english -_-)
 
Backup your current kernel (# cp -Rp /boot/kernel /boot/kernel.ovh, build the GENERIC kernel (assuming your sources are available and installed: cd /usr/src && make kernel) or install it from the 7.1-RELEASE distribution (CD/DVD).

Then move /boot/kernel to /boot/GENERIC, and move /boot/kernel.ovh back to /boot/kernel.

If I understand the docs correctly, freebsd-update will update /boot/GENERIC even when you're not running that kernel, so all you need to do is rebuild your custom kernel yourself after upgrading.
 
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