From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 11 21:31:47 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from www3.pacific-pages.com (www3.pacific-pages.com [192.41.48.219]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 73F0637B446 for ; Wed, 11 Apr 2001 21:31:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from david@www3.pacific-pages.com) Received: from d.tracker ([216.191.61.230]) by www3.pacific-pages.com (8.8.5) id WAA13398; Wed, 11 Apr 2001 22:30:36 -0600 (MDT) Received: (from david@localhost) by d.tracker (8.11.3/8.11.2) id f3C4Tqn74188; Thu, 12 Apr 2001 00:29:52 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from david) Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 00:29:52 -0400 (EDT) From: David Banning Message-Id: <200104120429.f3C4Tqn74188@d.tracker> To: david@www3.pacific-pages.com, mwm@mired.org Subject: Re: buildkernel problem with current Cc: questions@freebsd.org Reply-To: david@banning.com In-Reply-To: <15060.58175.50263.426611@guru.mired.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > David Banning types: > > I am updating to current right now. > > Are you sure you want to do that? current isn't meant for production > machines, and people who can't fend for themselves may wind up with > unusable hardware. I think so. My main purpose in going to current is challenge myself with the errors, and learning by solving those - albeit with help from the FreeBSD community. Is that a good reason? > > > The make world went fine but the the command > > config mykernelname > > > > renders the error; > > > > config tracker > > config: line 66: devices with zero units are not likely to be correct > > > > line 66 of my config file is nothing new; > > > > # Floppy drives > > device fdc0 at isa? port IO_FD1 irq 6 drq 2 > > device fd0 at fdc0 drive 0 > > device fd1 at fdc0 drive 1 > > It looks like you're trying to feed a -stable config file to a > -current config. As you've discovered, this won't work. If you really > want to udpate to -current, you need to start your config over with > the -current GENERIC. I took a look at the NOTES for -current and saw the problem. Thanks for the pointer. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message