From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jun 14 11:25:27 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from pozo.com (pozo.com [216.101.162.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 68DF437B87A for ; Wed, 14 Jun 2000 11:25:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from null@pozo.com) Received: from dual.pozo.com (dual.pozo.com [216.101.162.51]) by pozo.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA00283; Wed, 14 Jun 2000 11:24:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from null@pozo.com) Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20000614111920.00b42c70@pozo.com> X-Sender: null@pozo.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 11:24:55 -0700 To: Peter Wemm , current@FreeBSD.ORG From: Manfred Antar Subject: Re: HEADS UP!: config changes... In-Reply-To: <20000614082028.D6E781CD7@overcee.netplex.com.au> References: <20000613231829.2F4BF1CD7@overcee.netplex.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 01:20 AM 6/14/2000 -0700, Peter Wemm wrote: >Peter Wemm wrote: > >> # update /boot/loader.conf >> cd src/sys/boot; make obj depend all install > >Of course, it would be just my luck that there is a loader bug right now, >and this command will throw you into the fire. ;-( If your loader >complains about not being version 0.3+ or later and aborting, comment the >version tests out of /boot/loader.4th as an interim. > >I have also just committed a last-minute introduced bug that prevented >static hints files with full-line comments in them from working properly. > >Cheers, >-Peter Peter I got this to work after some tweaking. I was getting syntax errors from the hints file when booting. I cut and pasted out of GENERIC.hints into my.hints and now it seems to boot without any errors. I noticed I now have a new link in the / directory :: lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 10 Jun 14 11:18 ttyv0@ -> /dev/ttyv0 is this normal ? Also it seems that there is a order in the hints file that needs to be followed. Manfred ================================== || null@pozo.com || || Ph. (415) 681-6235 || ================================== To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message