Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2001 23:42:01 -0500 From: jacks@sage-american.com To: Vincent Poy <vince@oahu.WURLDLINK.NET> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: DEVICE.hints Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.20010819234201.01132088@mail.sage-american.com> In-Reply-To: <20010819181805.L2962-100000@oahu.WURLDLINK.NET> References: <3.0.5.32.20010819231541.01132088@mail.sage-american.com>
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OUCH! I said I was groggy (and not from beer!) I meant 4.3-CURRENT You are right.... I am rerunning the kernel now.... At 06:25 PM 8.19.2001 -1000, Vincent Poy wrote: > That's strange unless you're getting something other than 4.3 >sources because 4.3-RELEASE doesn't contain /boot/device.hints while >-CURRENT and -STABLE does. I've been recompiling the 4.3-RELEASE kernels >a lot recently during the past few days on various machines because of the >security advisories and none of them had a /boot/device.hints file on >them. -CURRENT I know has /boot/device.hints as a requirement. It seems >the UPDATING file you're referring to is probably from -STABLE and not >-RELEASE since the 4.3-RELEASE /usr/src/UPDATING has the following >timestamp: > >-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 31572 Mar 25 10:35 /usr/src/UPDATING > > and these are the only entries but no 20000825 entry... > >20000827: > sendmail has been updated from 8.9.3 to 8.11.0. Some of the more > visible changes that may immediately affect your configuration > include: > - New default file locations from src/contrib/sendmail/cf/README > - newaliases limited to root and trusted users > - MSA port (587) turned on by default > - New queue file naming system so can't go from 8.11 -> 8.9 > - FEATURE(`rbl') renamed to FEATURE(`dnsbl') > - FEATURE(`nullclient') is more full featured > - FEATURE(`nouucp') requires an argument: `reject' or `nospecial' > - mail.local FreeBSD-only -b option changed to -B > - See src/contrib/sendmail/RELEASE_NOTES for more info > >20000803: > The "installkernel" target has changed slightly. Now even if > you override KERNEL e.g. 'make installkernel KERNEL=MYKERNEL' > it will install the MYKERNEL file (built with the buildkernel > target) as /kernel rather than /MYKERNEL. Those who have > updated their /boot/loader.conf files to point to /MYKERNEL > should remove that entry or perform manual rename of /kernel > to /MYKERNEL. > > >Cheers, >Vince - vince@WURLDLINK.NET - Vice President ________ __ ____ >Unix Networking Operations - FreeBSD-Real Unix for Free / / / / | / |[__ ] >WurldLink Corporation / / / / | / | __] ] >San Francisco - Honolulu - Hong Kong / / / / / |/ / | __] ] >HongKong Stars/Gravis UltraSound Mailing Lists Admin /_/_/_/_/|___/|_|[____] >Almighty1@IRC - oahu.DAL.NET Hawaii's DALnet IRC Network Server Admin > > > > > >On Sun, 19 Aug 2001 jacks@sage-american.com wrote: > >> Yeah, UPDATING now shows "20000825" /boot/device.hints is now required for >> installkernel to succeed and says to do the copy over as you show.... >> >> Thanks for the fast help... getting groggy here... >> >> At 06:01 PM 8.19.2001 -1000, Vincent Poy wrote: >> >On Sun, 19 Aug 2001 jacks@sage-american.com wrote: >> > >> >> Ran CVSup for 4.3-RELEASE and ran make buildworld >> >> which succeeded... >> >> >> >> Then make kernel showed that it completed the build, but then it stopped >> >> with error Code 1 after saying "must setup a /boot/device.hints file first" >> >> >> >> I read the handbook, but nothing perpared me for this error. >> >> Anyone know about this file? >> >> Also, once such a file is there, should I rerun, make kernel? >> > >> > As far as I remember, 4.3-RELEASE doesn't have a >> >/boot/device.hints file but 5.0-CURRENT does: >> > >> > Do the following and then rebuild the kernel and reinstall: >> > >> >cp -p /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/GENERIC.hints /boot/device.hints >> > >> > >> >Cheers, >> >Vince - vince@WURLDLINK.NET - Vice President ________ __ ____ >> >Unix Networking Operations - FreeBSD-Real Unix for Free / / / / | / |[__ ] >> >WurldLink Corporation / / / / | / | __] ] >> >San Francisco - Honolulu - Hong Kong / / / / / |/ / | __] ] >> >HongKong Stars/Gravis UltraSound Mailing Lists Admin /_/_/_/_/|___/|_|[____] >> >Almighty1@IRC - oahu.DAL.NET Hawaii's DALnet IRC Network Server Admin >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> >> Best regards, >> Jack L. Stone, >> Server Admin >> >> Sage-American >> http://www.sage-american.com >> jacks@sage-american.com >> > > > Best regards, Jack L. Stone, Server Admin Sage-American http://www.sage-american.com jacks@sage-american.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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