Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2000 19:26:32 +0200 (CEST) From: Jan Conrad <conrad@th.physik.uni-bonn.de> To: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> Cc: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>, Ralph Schreyer <schreyer@th.physik.uni-bonn.de>, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Compiled kernel does not work Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0010281912110.16843-100000@merlin.th.physik.uni-bonn.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0010270918550.5146-100000@zeppo.feral.com>
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Hi folks, ok - I think I found out what the problem was, but I don't understand it fully... The config file looked like (taken from GENERIC): #To statically compile in device wiring instead of /boot/device.hints #hints "GENERIC.hints" What we didn't realize was that config tries to use the file <FILENAME>.hints even if the hints directive is not given. I would suggest to put a comment into GENERIC since this behavior is not described anywhere... (but the source code - ok :-) Furthermore the kernel seems to fail to load /boot/device.hints (my device.hints was just a copy of GENERIC.hints, as in the distribution). May that be due to the 4.1-R loader we use? Anyhow - now everything works fine... Thanks a lot for your help regards -Jan On Fri, 27 Oct 2000, Matthew Jacob wrote: > > > > > > Matthew Jacob writes: > > > > > > > > > > > O.k., we thought we commented out some devices actually needed, so we > > > > switched them on again one after the other, but the error message > > > > remained, even if we just copied GENERIC to MYKERNEL and compiled MYKERNEL > > > > without any modifications. However, /kernel.GENERIC works. Any ideas? > > > > > > > > > > Try a config -r. > > > > > > > Sounds kinda like he upgraded to -current w/o intending to and is > > missing a hints file. The device-hints stuff hasn't been mfc'ed yet, > > has it?? > > No it hasn't - maybe you're right. > > -- Physikalisches Institut der Universitaet Bonn Nussallee 12 D-53115 Bonn GERMANY To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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