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On Jun 17, 2004, at 3:51 AM, Bernd Walter wrote:
> So we have no device.hints in place.
> Do we already have a way for loading hints in case of netbooting?
> Otherwise the netbooting kernel needs hardcoded hints.
> AFAIK my last netbooting alpha was still 4.x so I never run into
> that problem myself.

I've not tried using the 4.x stuff, but its probably just to stick with
5.2.1 if we could get a net-bootable install kernel.  There is a 
device.hints
file, but I'm not sure that it does any good.  Anyway, let me know where
I could grab one, that would be great.