Kernel: make install Question

Good afternoon!

I am trying to get my USB card to work with Netbsd. I used
this guide: 
http://www
.aironaut.ch/content/view/27/53/ And so far I have no
problem, 
the kernel compiled (make). But know I am little bit
confused, because 
the guide just says to do a make install and reboot, but as
far as I 
know the Qube boots the kernel from the first partition,
which must be 
an ext2. Of courses the partition exists, but it is not
mounted:
qube# df -h
Filesystem    Size      Used     Avail Capacity  Mounted on
/dev/wd0a     272G     1.9G      257G     0%    /
/dev/wd0f     2.0G     1.6M      1.9G     0%    /var
/dev/wd0g     485M     3.0K      460M     0%    /tmp

So my question is: Do I need to mount the ext2 partition
first or does 
the make install handels it ...

Thank you already for any reply!

Bye Mips

On Thu, 15 Jun 2006, Dennis wrote:
> I am trying to get my USB card to work with Netbsd. I
used this guide: 
> http://www
.aironaut.ch/content/view/27/53/ And so far I have no
problem, the 
> kernel compiled (make). But know I am little bit
confused, because the guide 
> just says to do a make install and reboot, but as far
as I know the Qube 
> boots the kernel from the first partition, which must
be an ext2. Of courses 
> the partition exists, but it is not mounted:
> qube# df -h
> Filesystem    Size      Used     Avail Capacity 
Mounted on
> /dev/wd0a     272G     1.9G      257G     0%    /
> /dev/wd0f     2.0G     1.6M      1.9G     0%    /var
> /dev/wd0g     485M     3.0K      460M     0%    /tmp
>
> So my question is: Do I need to mount the ext2
partition first or does the 
> make install handels it ...

If you don't know what "make install" does, run
"make -n install" and see.
I don't see where the cobalt kernel Makefile comes from
right now, but my 
guess is that you have to mount the boot partition manually.


  - Hubert

On Jun 15, 2006, at 5:06 AM, Dennis wrote:

> Good afternoon!
>
> I am trying to get my USB card to work with Netbsd. I
used this  
> guide: http://www
.aironaut.ch/content/view/27/53/ And so far I have  
> no problem, the kernel compiled (make). But know I am
little bit  
> confused, because the guide just says to do a make
install and  
> reboot, but as far as I know the Qube boots the kernel
from the  
> first partition, which must be an ext2. Of courses the
partition  
> exists, but it is not mounted:
> qube# df -h
> Filesystem    Size      Used     Avail Capacity 
Mounted on
> /dev/wd0a     272G     1.9G      257G     0%    /
> /dev/wd0f     2.0G     1.6M      1.9G     0%    /var
> /dev/wd0g     485M     3.0K      460M     0%    /tmp
>
> So my question is: Do I need to mount the ext2
partition first or  
> does the make install handels it ...
>
> Thank you already for any reply!


If you are using the bootloader (which is installed by the
restore cd  
on the ext2 partition), then your netbsd kernel goes on the
/  
partition.  Just do the make install like the instructions
say and  
you should be fine.

Byron