Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2001 18:45:58 -1000 (HST) From: Vincent Poy <vince@oahu.WURLDLINK.NET> To: <jacks@sage-american.com> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: DEVICE.hints Message-ID: <20010819184459.E2962-100000@oahu.WURLDLINK.NET> In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.20010819234201.01132088@mail.sage-american.com>
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Thought so... =) but it should be 5.0-CURRENT since the only -CURRENT before 5.0 was 4.0 and then 3.0. 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: > 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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