From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 21 22: 4:49 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from stjohn.stjohn.ac.th (stjohn.stjohn.ac.th [202.21.144.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1FEBA37B43C for ; Mon, 21 Aug 2000 22:04:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from granite.impoffice.ac.th ([203.151.134.100]) by stjohn.stjohn.ac.th (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id MAA18451 for ; Tue, 22 Aug 2000 12:00:01 +0700 (GMT) Message-Id: <3.0.6.32.20000822120729.008741f0@stjohn.stjohn.ac.th> X-Sender: mcrogerm@stjohn.stjohn.ac.th X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.6 (32) Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 12:07:29 +0700 To: questions@freebsd.org From: Roger Merritt Subject: Using .hints file Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I am in the process of upgrading my system from 3.2-RELEASE to STABLE, and have cvsup'ed the source code. I decided to check out the configuration files for making a custom kernel, and found some differences from 3.2. The perl script for creating a hints file from my old configuration file was great, and its output gives me some idea of what's going on here. I found the line in GENERIC where the hints file is referred to and edited it to the correct name for my configuration. But when I browsed through the perl script, it says I should use loader(8) if at all possible. My problem is I don't find anything in the man page for loader(8) that suggests how to use a hints file with it. The web version of the Handbook doesn't seem to have been updated since ver 3.2, and says nothing I can find about hints. Where can I find out about this? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message