Manually Making HP-UX Kernels

Introduction / Philosophy

Beware that before you start you probably want to use sam just to regenerate the *same* kernel! Sam puts a lot of drivers in without them even being requested. Not that this means the kernel will support more hardware, but it does mean that the config file /stand/system will be put into a "normalised" state, making manual updates and sam updates less different, and most importantly facilitating automatic patching of the kernel by non-root VLT users via sudo.

In HP-UX 10.10, this process of remaking the identical kernel via sam adds the following drivers:

CharDrv
asp
c720
core
foreign
framebuf
ite
klog
lasi
netman
pa
sctl
strpty_included
wsio

and removes:

nm

The command to actually remake the kernel is:

# mk_kernel -o /stand/vmunix -v
# sync; sync; sync; reboot

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