Date: Sun, 28 Apr 2002 22:14:44 +0400 (MSD) From: Dmitry Morozovsky <marck@rinet.ru> To: "Philip J. Koenig" <pjklist@ekahuna.com> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG, Kevin Oberman <oberman@es.net> Subject: Re: Build sequence (was Re: mergemaster theory (was: Re: /etc/defaults/rc.conf theory) ) Message-ID: <20020428221219.K74442-100000@woozle.rinet.ru> In-Reply-To: <20020428084259266.AAA791@empty1.ekahuna.com@pc02.ekahuna.com>
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On Sun, 28 Apr 2002, Philip J. Koenig wrote: [snip PJK> So I tried the 'accepted' sequence of installing the kernel before PJK> the world yesterday. PJK> PJK> One thing I have always done prior to running mergemaster is to set PJK> the console to 132 columns to make it easier to view long lines and PJK> to facilitate merging files. PJK> PJK> When I was running this new kernel (mismatched to the world) PJK> vidcontrol was completely broken, none of its commands would work. PJK> (anything I typed got met with something along the lines of "must be PJK> on virtual console, inappropriate ioctl for device". This problem PJK> went away after installing the world.) PJK> PJK> So I couldn't do anything with the default screen settings. Not that hard ;-) you can use /usr/obj/<path-to-your-usr-src>/usr.sbin/vidcontrol/vidcontrol, which is in sync with your new kernel PJK> I'd say it's a good example of the kinds of things that can break PJK> when you do it that way. So it appears each method has its pluses PJK> and minuses. (Maybe the ideal would be to test the new kernel then PJK> revert to the old to build the new system, but that would require a PJK> 2nd reboot) I doubt it is really useful -- but all people are so different, you know... ;-) Sincerely, D.Marck [DM5020, DM268-RIPE, DM3-RIPN] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *** Dmitry Morozovsky --- D.Marck --- Wild Woozle --- marck@rinet.ru *** ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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