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Date:      Thu, 28 Oct 2010 09:50:21 +0000
From:      Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
Cc:        pjd@freebsd.org, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Jeremy Chadwick <freebsd@jdc.parodius.com>, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Can't build boot blocks after new GPT attributes added
Message-ID:  <20101028095021.GB393@lonesome.com>
In-Reply-To: <201010270927.04145.jhb@freebsd.org>
References:  <20101027074401.GA18014@icarus.home.lan> <201010270927.04145.jhb@freebsd.org>

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On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 09:27:03AM -0400, John Baldwin wrote:
> Maybe you could add text to the handbook to say this, but it is already 
> implicitly assumed in the handbook section you are referring to since it 
> assumes you can safely compile a new kernel, etc. [...]  If we were to 
> document those every time it would clutter documentation making it harder for 
> someone who is new to FreeBSD to simply setup a serial console on a box that 
> they just installed.

It sounds like what we need is a tutorial, and (somewhere else?) the extended
version.  People seem to trip over things like this fairly often; at least
this way we could refer them to a standard text.

No, I don't have the backgroud, or cycles, to write it :-)

mcl



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