kernel recompilation?

I have installed the 7 October snapshot which shows the
GENERIC
configuration in dmesg(8):

console is keyboard/display
Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993
        The Regents of the University of California.  All
rights reserved.
Copyright (c) 1995-2007 OpenBSD. All rights reserved.  http://www.OpenBSD.org

OpenBSD 4.2-current (GENERIC) #1437: Sun Oct  7 17:51:02 MDT
2007
    deraadtsparc64.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/sparc64/compile
/GENERIC
real mem = 536870912 (512MB)
avail mem = 508567552 (485MB)
mainbus0 at root: Sun Ultra 5/10 UPA/PCI (UltraSPARC-IIi
440MHz)
...

After checking out the source tree via CVS, I recompiled
GENERIC to
ensure my environment.  Recompilation & installation
appeared to be
successful.  Upon logging in, I would see the following:

OpenBSD/sparc64 (***) (console)

login: ***
Password:
Last login: Tue Oct 9 23:46:00 on console
OpenBSD 4.2-current (GENERIC) #0: Tue Oct 9 23:24:35 PDT
2007

Welcome to OpenBSD: The proactively secure Unix-like
operating system.
...

However, upon looking at the output dmesg(8), I see the
following:

console is keyboard/display
Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993
        The Regents of the University of California.  All
rights reserved.
Copyright (c) 1995-2007 OpenBSD. All rights reserved.  http://www.OpenBSD.org

OpenBSD 4.2-current (RAMDISK) #149: Sun Oct  7 18:22:30 MDT
2007
    deraadtsparc64.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/sparc64/compile
/RAMDISK
real mem = 536870912 (512MB)
avail mem = 511492096 (487MB)
mainbus0 at root: Sun Ultra 5/10 UPA/PCI (UltraSPARC-IIi
440MHz)
...

...where now shows the RAMDISK configuration appears as
opposed to
GENERIC.  What was the (obvious) mistake made in rebuilding
the
kernel?

Thanks for any insight which can be shared.

Jim

On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 01:31:33AM -0700, James Hartley
wrote:
| ...where now shows the RAMDISK configuration appears as
opposed to
| GENERIC.  What was the (obvious) mistake made in
rebuilding the
| kernel?
|
| Thanks for any insight which can be shared.

Search /var/run/dmesg.boot for more occurences of 'OpenBSD'.
A cool
feature of OpenBSD is the fact that the dmesg buffer is
persistent
across reboots. You probably have multiple dmesgs in there,
the last
one is the current one.

Cheers,

Paul 'WEiRD" de Weerd

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