From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 8 13:47:36 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6DED216A4CE; Wed, 8 Sep 2004 13:47:36 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail-gw0.york.ac.uk (mail-gw0.york.ac.uk [144.32.128.245]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DBE0543D31; Wed, 8 Sep 2004 13:47:35 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk) Received: from buffy.york.ac.uk (buffy.york.ac.uk [144.32.226.160]) by mail-gw0.york.ac.uk (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i88DlRlo013972; Wed, 8 Sep 2004 14:47:27 +0100 (BST) Received: from buffy.york.ac.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by buffy.york.ac.uk (8.13.1/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i88DlQRY004118; Wed, 8 Sep 2004 14:47:26 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk) Received: (from ga9@localhost) by buffy.york.ac.uk (8.13.1/8.12.11/Submit) id i88Dl9rf004117; Wed, 8 Sep 2004 14:47:09 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk) X-Authentication-Warning: buffy.york.ac.uk: ga9 set sender to gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk using -f From: Gavin Atkinson To: "M. Warner Losh" In-Reply-To: <20040907.132716.71088896.imp@bsdimp.com> References: <1094426835.767.50.camel@localhost> <20040907.132716.71088896.imp@bsdimp.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <1094651228.3634.4.camel@buffy.york.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 Date: Wed, 08 Sep 2004 14:47:08 +0100 X-York-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-York-MailScanner-From: gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk cc: bmah@freebsd.org cc: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RFC: 5.3 Migration Guide X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 08 Sep 2004 13:47:36 -0000 On Tue, 2004-09-07 at 20:27, M. Warner Losh wrote: > Having just done a 4.10 -> current upgrade... > > In message: <1094426835.767.50.camel@localhost> > "Bruce A. Mah" writes: > : http://people.freebsd.org/~bmah/pub/article.html > ... > : Thanks for any comments... > Item #6: > o Hints are needed for systems that have custom ISA non PNP > cards (with custom hints benig needed) > o Hints are also needed for non PNPBIOS systems. > o Hints are also needed for PNPBIOS systems to get floppies > right (this is a bug that may be fixed). > o An empty file is sufficient for modern hardware. I believe, at the very minimum, the file must still contain the hint.sc.0.foo hints for the video console to be usable. > Item #8: > o you *MUST* do a fsck -p before mount -uw / (note: I always > -uw rather than -u). Will this make any difference? At the moment, fsck will still be the old (4.X) binary... Gavin